Sylvan Anxieties and the Making of Landscapes in Early Modern Korea
(2022)
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All Outputs (5)
The Waterlogged Limits of the Infrastructural State: The Failure of the T’aean Canalization Projects in Pre-Industrial Korea, 1134-1537 (2020)
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One of the chronic problems of pre-industrial Korean history has been the difficulty of material integration between core regions of the Korean peninsula. This article analyzes five major canalization attempts made by Koryŏ and Chosŏn states in the T... Read More about The Waterlogged Limits of the Infrastructural State: The Failure of the T’aean Canalization Projects in Pre-Industrial Korea, 1134-1537.
Editor’s Introduction: New Perspectives from Korean Environmental History (2020)
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The Rise of the Brokered State: Situating Administrative Expansion in Chosŏn Korea (2019)
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Between 1500 and 1800 CE, patterns of governance on the Korean Peninsula shifted toward a dynamic that I term the “rise of the brokered state.” While central political authority increasingly became entrenched in a small number of elite families resid... Read More about The Rise of the Brokered State: Situating Administrative Expansion in Chosŏn Korea.
Postwar Pines: The Military and the Expansion of State Forests in Post-Imjin Korea, 1598–1684 (2018)
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This article explains why the Chosŏn government and the military in particular expanded state control over forests in the seventeenth century and analyzes the implications of forest administration in a preindustrial polity. From 1592 to 1598, the Cho... Read More about Postwar Pines: The Military and the Expansion of State Forests in Post-Imjin Korea, 1598–1684.