Intro -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Terms, Names, Translation, and Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Early Contact and Migration -- 2 Work and Workers -- 3 Carson City and Truckee: Anti-Chinese Activities -- 4 Of Wood and Mines -- 5 Of Wood and Trains --...

"In the Qing period (1644-1912), China's population tripled, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation, akin to the resource misuse that devastated European forests at...