"Balancing the Commons in Switzerland outlines continuity and change in the management of common-pool resources such as pastures and forests in Switzerland. The book focusses on the differences and similarities between local institutions (rules and regulations) and forms of commoners'...

Introduction: the arc of historical commercial relations between China and Southeast Asia / Wen-Chin Chang and Eric Tagliacozzo -- Chinese on the mining frontier in Southeast Asia / Anthony Reid -- Cotton, copper, and caravans : trade and the transformation of Southwest China / C. Patterson...