A World Trimmed With Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, And The Natural Fringes Of Qing Rule,New Daniel E. The Rebel Resistance Is Scattered

The Rebel Resistance Is Scattered

From Picnics To Dinner Parties

Or Even Franklin

Until A Mysterious Virus Hits

A World Trimmed With Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, And The Natural Fringes Of Qing Rule,New Daniel E. The Rebel Resistance Is ScatteredIn The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries, Booming Demand For Natural Resources Transformed China And Its Frontiers. Historians Of China Have Described This Process In Stark Terms: Pristine Borderlands Became Breadbaskets. Yet Manchu And Mongolian Archives Reveal A Different Story. Well Before Homesteaders Arrived, Wild Objects From The Far North Became Part Of Elite Fashion, And Unprecedented Consumption Had Exhausted The Region'S Most Precious