Tigers, Rice, Silk and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China by Robert Marks, the Richard and Billie Deihl Distinguished Professor of History, is reviewed by fellow historian Elizabeth Blackmar, in a series presented by the N-YHS and published monthly in the New York Times' Book Review section. The series relates "what historians are reading now"; Marks' book was included in the February 10, 2008, edition of the Times.
