£60.47

UBC Press Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949 (Contemporary Chinese Studies)

Price data last checked 34 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

We'll watch every seller, every day. One email when your price arrives.

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£60 today · previous high £60 · all-time low £19

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey
↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next
↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range
↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 57 days • 57 data points (No recent data available)

Historical
Generating forecast...
£60.47 £14.53 £24.56 £34.58 £44.60 £54.62 £64.65 06 April 2026 20 April 2026 04 May 2026 18 May 2026 01 June 2026

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 57 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price
Current Price
32 days 25 days · current 0 8 16 24 32 £19 £60 Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £19 (32 days, 56.1%)

Price range: £19 - £60

Price levels: 2 different prices over 57 days

Description

The Jianghan Plain in central China has been shaped by its relationship with water. Once a prolific rice-growing region that drew immigrants to its fertile paddy fields, it has, since the eighteenth century, become prone to devastating flooding and waterlogging. Jiayan Zhang consults early records of catastrophic water events and explores their role in shaping Jianghan society in the Qing and Republican periods. In a constantly shifting environment, the peasants of Jianghan were forced to adapt their farming methods; cooperate on complex projects like dike building; and even organize social structures, tenancy arrangements, and lifestyles around the pressure and uncertainty of their environment. The first environmental and socioeconomic history of the region, Coping with Calamity considers the Jianghan Plain’s volatile environment, the constant challenges it presented to peasants, and their often ingenious and sophisticated responses.

Product Specifications

Format
hardcover
Domain
Amazon UK
Release Date
16 May 2014
Listed Since
19 November 2013

Barcode

No barcode data available

Similar Products You Might Like

China's Environmental Governing and Ecological Civilization (China Insights)
76% match

China's Environmental Governing and Ecological Civilization (China Insights)

Springer

£80.71 24 May 2026
Flood Resources Utilization in the Yangtze River Basin
76% match

Flood Resources Utilization in the Yangtze River Basin

Springer

£76.38 24 May 2026
Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes): 15
76% match

Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes): 15

University of California Press

£61.05 27 May 2026
Land and Disaster Management Strategies in Asia
76% match

Land and Disaster Management Strategies in Asia

Springer

£84.28 19 May 2026
Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China (Studies in Environment and History)
75% match

Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China (Studies in Environment and History)

Cambridge University Press

£60.35 30 May 2026
Rural Livelihood and Environmental Sustainability in China
75% match

Rural Livelihood and Environmental Sustainability in China

MACMILLAN

£77.33 19 May 2026
Cultural Psychology of Coping with Disasters: The Case of an Earthquake in Java, Indonesia
75% match

Cultural Psychology of Coping with Disasters: The Case of an Earthquake in Java, Indonesia

Springer

£77.33 05 Jun 2026
Social Ties, Resources, and Migrant Labor Contention in Contemporary China: From Peasants to Protesters
75% match

Social Ties, Resources, and Migrant Labor Contention in Contemporary China: From Peasants to Protesters

Lexington Books

£84.29 01 Jun 2026
Chinese Environmental Humanities: Practices of Environing at the Margins (Chinese Literature and Culture in the World)
75% match

Chinese Environmental Humanities: Practices of Environing at the Margins (Chinese Literature and Culture in the World)

MACMILLAN

£78.21 18 May 2026
Analysis and Modelling of Water Supply and Demand Under Climate Change, Land Use Transformation and Socio-Economic Development: The Water Resource ... Region, Northwest China (Springer Theses)
75% match

Analysis and Modelling of Water Supply and Demand Under Climate Change, Land Use Transformation and Socio-Economic Development: The Water Resource ... Region, Northwest China (Springer Theses)

Springer

£107.98 02 Jul 2026
Atlas of Environmental Risks Facing China Under Climate Change (IHDP/Future Earth-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series)
75% match

Atlas of Environmental Risks Facing China Under Climate Change (IHDP/Future Earth-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series)

Springer

£107.98 06 Jun 2026
Utopia in Practice: Bishan Project and Rural Reconstruction (Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics)
75% match

Utopia in Practice: Bishan Project and Rural Reconstruction (Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics)

MACMILLAN

£87.45 31 May 2026
Farming, Famine and Plague: The Impact of Climate in Late Medieval England
75% match

Farming, Famine and Plague: The Impact of Climate in Late Medieval England

Springer

£91.38 01 Jun 2026
Securing the ‘Rice Bowl’: China and Global Food Security
74% match

Securing the ‘Rice Bowl’: China and Global Food Security

MACMILLAN

£72.98 10 May 2026
Coping with Climate Change: Principles and Asian Context
74% match

Coping with Climate Change: Principles and Asian Context

Springer

£117.70 01 Jun 2026
Knowledge Workers in Contemporary China: Reform, and Resistance in the Publishing Industry
74% match

Knowledge Workers in Contemporary China: Reform, and Resistance in the Publishing Industry

Lexington Books

£38.79 09 Jun 2026
Dealing with Disasters: Perspectives from Eco-Cosmologies (Palgrave Studies in Disaster Anthropology)
74% match

Dealing with Disasters: Perspectives from Eco-Cosmologies (Palgrave Studies in Disaster Anthropology)

MACMILLAN

£70.92 28 May 2026
Climate Change and Ancient Societies in Europe and the Near East: Diversity in Collapse and Resilience (Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies)
74% match

Climate Change and Ancient Societies in Europe and the Near East: Diversity in Collapse and Resilience (Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies)

MACMILLAN

£74.68 16 May 2026
An Integrated Assessment of China’s Ecological Restoration Programs
74% match

An Integrated Assessment of China’s Ecological Restoration Programs

Springer

£108.75 20 May 2026
The Chinese City
74% match

The Chinese City

Routledge

£43.90 21 May 2026
Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire: Famines, Fevers and the Literary Cultures of South Asia
74% match

Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire: Famines, Fevers and the Literary Cultures of South Asia

MACMILLAN

£41.03 02 Jul 2026
Dealing with Disasters: Perspectives from Eco-Cosmologies (Palgrave Studies in Disaster Anthropology)
74% match

Dealing with Disasters: Perspectives from Eco-Cosmologies (Palgrave Studies in Disaster Anthropology)

MACMILLAN

£81.41 03 Jun 2026
Legal Methods of Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation in Chinese Water Management
74% match

Legal Methods of Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation in Chinese Water Management

Springer

£75.10 27 May 2026
Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform: Initial Steps toward a New Chinese Countryside, 1976-1981
74% match

Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform: Initial Steps toward a New Chinese Countryside, 1976-1981

Routledge

£41.58 26 May 2026