In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for Natural resources transformed China and its frontiers.
In A World Trimmed wit.
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 resources.
Yet Manchu and Mongolian archives reveal a different story.
Historians of China have described this process in stark terms: Pristine borderlands became breadbaskets.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for Natural resources transformed China and its frontiers