Prof J Mark Elvin

Research output

Research output per year 1999 1999 2002 2004 2008 2010 2011

• 15 Chapter
• 10 Article
• 1 Book
• 1 Paper

Research output per year

Research output per year

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• 2011

  An inter-continental comparison between the environmental histories of two lake catchment systems in montane environments of France and South West China

  Crook, D. S., Dearing, J. A., Jones, R. & Elvin, J. M., 2011, In: Water History. 3, 2, p. 95-120

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  • mountain environment 100%
  • environmental history 94%
  • catchment 54%
  • lake 42%
  • comparison 30%
• 2010

  Introductions

  Elvin, J. M., 2010, Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective. Hans Ulrich Vogel & Gunter Dux (ed.). 1st ed. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, p. 56-101

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Overview: Concepts of Nature

  Elvin, J. M., 2010, Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective. Hans Ulrich Vogel & Gunter Dux (ed.). 1st ed. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, p. 1-56

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• PERSONAL LUCK: WHY PREMODERN CHINA- PROBABLY -DID NOT DEVELOP PROBABILISTIC THINKING

  Elvin, J. M., 2010, Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective. Hans Ulrich Vogel & Gunter Dux (ed.). 1st ed. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, p. 400-468

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2009

  Marriages, births and deaths in the lower Yangzi valley during the later eighteenth century

  Elvin, J. M. & Fox, J., 2009, Windows on the Chinese World: reflections by five historians. Clara Wing-chung Ho (ed.). 1st ed. Lanham: Lexington Books, p. 67-112

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Why intensify? The outline of a theory of the institutional causes driving long-term changes in Chinese farming and the consequent modifications of the environment

  Elvin, J. M., 2009, Nature's End: History and the Environment. Sverker Sorlin and Paul Warde (ed.). 1st ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, p. 273-303

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2008

  Defining the Explicanda in the 'West and the Rest' Debate: Bryant's Critique and its Critics

  Elvin, J. M., 2008, In: Canadian Journal of Sociology. 33, 1, p. 168-185

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Local demographic variations in the lower Yangzi valley during mid-Qing times

  Elvin, J. M. & Fox, J., 2008, Metals, Monies, and Markets in Early Modern Societies: East Asian and Global Perspectives. Thomas Hirzel and Nanny Kims (ed.). 1st ed. Berlin: Regiospectra Verlag, p. 333-378

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The historian as haruspex

  Elvin, J. M., 2008, In: New Left Review. 52, p. 83-109

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• 2007

  Using multiple archives to understand past and present climate-human-environment interactions: the lake Erhai catchment, Yunnan Province, China

  Dearing, J., Jones, R. T., Shen, J., Yang, X., Boyle, J. F., Foster, G. C., Crook, D. S. & Elvin, J. M., 2007, In: Journal of Paleolimnology. Online, p. 1-29

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  • disturbed land 100%
  • sediments 81%
  • flood irrigation 80%
  • terraces 80%
  • lakes 72%
• 2005

  Social Rights to the Use of Nature

  Elvin, J. M., 2005, In: Environmental History. 10, 4, p. 684-686

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• 2004

  An Argument from Silence? The Implications of Xu Xiakes Description of the Miju River in 1639 (2003)

  Elvin, J. M. & Crook, D., 2004, Li Ting jiaoshou jinshi huadan jinian wenji (Festschrift for Professor Li Ting’s Ninetieth Birthday). History Faculty, Yunnan University and Yunnan University Institute for the Econo (ed.). 1st ed. Kunming, China: Yunnan University Press, p. 150-160

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Different transitions: the year 1000 in China's environmental history

  Elvin, J. M., 2004, The world in the year 1000. James Heitzman and Wolfgang Schenkluhn (ed.). 1st ed. Lanham, MD: Oxford University Press, p. 66-86

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Fertility in Marriage in Wuyuan County in the late 18th and early 19th centuries

  Elvin, J. M., James, M. & Fox, J., 2004, The History of the Family: a new survey. Zhang Guogang (ed.). 1st ed. Beijing, China: Sanlian Shudian, p. 299-346

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Some reflections on the use of 'styles of scientific thinking' to disaggregate and sharpen comparisons between China and Europe from sòng to Mid-Qing times (960-1850 CE)

  Elvin, J. M., 2004, In: History of Technology. 25, p. 53-103

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China

  Elvin, J. M., 2004, 1st ed. USA: Yale University Press. 592 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Vale Atque Ave

  Elvin, J. M., 2004, Joseph Needham: Science and Civilisation in China. Kenneth Girdwood Robinson (ed.). 1st ed. UK: Cambridge University Press, p. xxiv-xliii

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2003

  Litterateurs and Voyeurs: Shanghai Men of Letter of the 1930s, as Portrayed in Ping Jinyas Novel Tides in the Human Sea

  Elvin, J. M., 2003, A Birthday Book for Brother Stone: for David Hawkes, at Eighty. Rachel May and John Minford (ed.). 1st ed. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, p. 263-281

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Water in China Past and Present: Competition and Cooperation

  Elvin, J. M., 2003, L’eau: Enjeux et Conflits. Laurent Baechler and Christine Theiler (ed.). 1st ed. Geneve: Centre de Recherches Enterprises et Societes, p. 103-128

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2002

  Braudel and China

  Elvin, J. M., 2002, Early Modern History and the Social Sciences: Testing the Limits of Braudel's Mediterranean. John A Marino (ed.). 1st ed. USA: Truman State University Press, p. 225-253

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Geren-de yunqi - weishemme qianjindai Zhongguo keneng meiyou fazhan gailu sixiang (Personal Luck: Why Premodern China - Probably - did not Develop Probabilistic Thinking

  Elvin, J. M., 2002, Zhongguo Kexue yu Kexue Geming. Li Yuesi nanti ji qi xiangguan wenti yanjiu lunzhu xuan (Chinese Science and Scientific Revolution. Selected Research and Writings on the Needham Conundrum and Related Problems). Liu Dun and Wang Yangzong (ed.). 1st ed. Shenyang, China: Liaoning Jiaoyu Publishing House, p. 426-496

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The Impact of Clearance and Irrigation on the Environment in the Lake Erhai Catchment from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century

  Elvin, J. M., Crook, D., Ji, S., Jones, R. & Dearing, J., 2002, In: East Asian History. 23, p. 1-60

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• The Unavoidable Environment: Reflections on Premodern Economic Growth in China

  Elvin, J. M., 2002, p. 1-86.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
• 2000

  El medio ambiente (The Environment)

  Elvin, J. M., 2000, China en trasición: Sociedad, cultura, política y economía (China in Transition: Society, culture, politics and economy). Fisac, T.; Tsang, S. (ed.). First ed. Barcelona, Spain: Edicions Bellaterra, p. 323-360

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 1999

  How Did the Cracks Open? The Origins of the Subversion of China's Late-Traditional Culture by the West

  Elvin, J. M., 1999, In: Thesis Eleven. 57, p. 1-16

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  • traditional culture 100%
  • subversion 97%
  • Traditional Culture 95%
  • Crack 92%
  • Subversion 86%

• Stopping, Seeing and Language: an interpretation of Zhuangzis Qi wulun by JF Billeter

  Elvin, J. M., 1999, In: East Asian History. 15/16, p. 1-32

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Who was Responsible for the Weather? Moral Meteorology in Late Imperial China

  Elvin, J. M., 1999, In: Osiris. 13, p. 121-45

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article