Ruth Mostern is associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, where she is also director of the World History Center.
“A survey of three millennia, based on an innovative historical
geographic-information system.”—Andrew Robinson, Nature, “Best
Science Pick of the Week”
“The author achieves the notable feat of telling this vast, complex
history in a single readable volume.”—Christopher Ruane, Asian
Affairs
“The Yellow River is a thought-provoking contribution to
environment history and, more specifically, Chinese river
history.”—Pichamon Yeophantong, European Journal of East Asian
Studies
Winner of the Joseph Levenson Prize (China, Pre-1900), sponsored by
the Association for Asian Studies
“No other scholar has produced such a systematic, comprehensive
account of the long-term changes in the river’s function and
structure. I consider it to be the definitive work on the topic of
the Yellow River to date.”—Peter C. Perdue, author of China Marches
West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia
“Ruth Mostern masterfully explores the ‘natural and unnatural’
impacts of the Yellow River. Her approach, emphasizing continuity
and change over the longue durée, reveals a complex river that
connects, dissects, transports, and displaces.”—David A. Pietz,
author of The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern
China
“This unique book is testimony to the great value of spatial
analysis and digital approaches. Read it for methodological
innovation and let that change how you study history, humanities,
and beyond!”—Ling Zhang, author of The River, the Plain, and the
State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048–1128
“In her three-thousand-year history of the Yellow River, Ruth
Mostern provides a genuinely new take, full of surprising insights,
that makes compelling reading. A pioneering example of
quantitatively informed environmental history.”—Valerie Hansen,
author of The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and
Globalization Began
“An outstanding merger of science and history, giving us a deeper
understanding of the long, often tragic history of efforts to
manage the Yellow River and the land it flows through.”—Kenneth
Pomeranz, author of The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the
Making of the Modern World Economy
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