...The region including China's Yunnan Province, northern Laos, and northern Thailand, best known as the Golden Triangle, has been globalized for a long time. This chapter focuses on constructing narratives of the different actors in one sector's rural economy—tea cultivation and processing—to examine...

... freedoms Kaminer Wendy realism self help literature James William prescriptive texts spirituality spirits Protestant ethic Max Weber William James critique disenchantment self-cultivation iron cage Spirituality long ago slipped the bonds of religious specificity. As many critics...

...This chapter considers failed public and private efforts to make tea a viable cash crop in the American South, focusing on the efforts of the entrepreneur Junius Smith and the US Patent Office's agricultural department. It argues that the failures of tea cultivation in the American South were many...

... by seed rain beneath remnant trees arrested succession fallows Laos cultivation fallows shifting cultivation fallows species richness amphibian Betsimisaraka people Borneo Dayak people Imperata cylindrica land use biological legacies and Sri Lanka hunter gatherer populations succession arrested...

... Bernard Lamy cultivation pleasure In the first paragraph of his first published work, Catalogus Plantarum circa Cantabrigiam Nascentium (Cambridge, 1660), a catalog of the plants growing around Cambridge, John Ray described the pleasures of botany: “We became [ … ] delighted...

... and other irrigation works. The challenges posed by the constantly changing shape of alluvial islands contributed to notions about what constituted evidence for the continuous use and cultivation of property. Both dredging and the physical flux of alluvial islands thus altered the literal shape of Egypt’s...

... to plantation infrastructure sugarcane plots firm structure of sugar industry Haiti refining sharecropping soil exhaustion sugarcane cultivation field slaves muscovado sugar sugar raw absentee owners Bacon Francis fertilization Northern Province of Saint Domingue Paris Antigua Binau Marie...

... increasingly distant in post-medieval Japanese history, even as he was elevated to the status of universal sage and his life became appropriate material for the distinctly modern program of “cultivation” (Bildung). The critical trajectory traveled by the life of the Buddha is exemplified in a series of bas...

...This introductory chapter describes tropical forests as dynamic and resilient systems. Indigenous practitioners of shifting cultivation in tropical forests understood the forest regeneration cycle. Forest succession is a process of self-reorganization and reassembly that takes place gradually over...

... diversity of Okomu Forest Reserve tropical forests ancient human legacies Cameroon cultivation patterns Denevan William forest clearing early regeneration after Iron Age west central Africa biomass aboveground early Holocene time interval for Holocene agricultural expansion hunter gatherer...

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... development regimes. Shifting cultivation in the region shaped the landscape, land cover, and land use across this transect in similar ways up through the end of World War II, and most of the corridor's inhabitants were identified as ethnic “minorities.” Over the past five decades, however, these countries...

... Pollan Michael self willed willing natural systems wild the wild wilderness designation National Park Service wilderness legislation oyster cultivation Point Reyes Wilderness Act Drakes Bay Oyster Company potential wilderness On January 3, 2015, a rousing wake was held in the town of Point...

...This chapter explores the essential role played by pedagogy in the age of Enlightenment as well as the project of modernity, and how education contributes to a democratic culture and the cultivation of self-critique. In pursuit of these questions, the author engages at length with Kant. cultivation...