Ian M Miller

Biographic Data

ID1261163
NAMEIan M Miller
GIVEN NAMESIan M
FAMILY NAMEMiller
SIGNATUREMILLER I M
AFFILIATIONSDenver Museum of Nature and Science
ORCID0000-0001-6641-1556
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS17
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Between Land and Water

    Ian M MillerARTICLEJournal of Early Modern History2025

    The coastline of China is home to large populations whose activities cross the hazy borders between land and water. Over the course of several centuries, states tried to tie these people more tightly to the land-based regime by regulating the fisheries and the populations that depended on them. Yet new opportunities at wealth through trade, and the growing power of merchant-raiders, drew these same fisherfolk into the increasingly interconnected …

  • Lines of Fate

    Open AccessIan M Miller, Clemency Coggins et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review2024

    This article explores the concept of resilience within the framework of fengshui forests in subtropical southern China over the last millennium. Consisting of small patches of old-growth or old secondary-growth forest associated with graves, temples, and the paths of wind and water into and out of villages, fengshui forests were historically seen as nodes that supplied vital qi(energy, force or substance) to the community, an understanding that p…

  • Religion and Prison Art in Ming China (1368–1644)

    Open AccessIan M MillerARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2023

    Religion and Prison Art in Ming China (1368–1644): Creative Environment, Creative Subjects. Ying Zhang. Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and the Arts. Leiden: Brill, 2020. 102 pp. €96. - Volume 76 Issue 3

  • White Lotus Rebels and South China Pirates

    Ian M MillerARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2021

    White Lotus Rebels and South China Pirates: Crisis and Reform in the Qing Empire. By Wensheng Wang. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. 252. $42

  • Fir and Empire

    Open AccessIan M Miller, Paul S SutterBOOKFir and Empire2020Cited by: 3

    A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE Restores China’s place in forest history The disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. China’s early modern forest history is typically viewed as a centuries-long process of environmental decline, culminating in a nineteenth-century social and ecological crisis. Pushing back a…

  • Forestry and the Politics of Sustainability in Early China

    Ian M MillerARTICLEEnvironmental History2017References: 2

    Between the sixth and second centuries bce, Chinese states developed offices to oversee the sustainable use of forest resources. This era, often cited as a period of rampant environmental degradation, also saw the emergence of a discourse of sustainability. The early philosopher texts criticized the environmental and moral degradation of their era in order to promote specific policy interventions. In response to the deforestation they depicted, m…

  • Geologic setting and stratigraphy of the Ziegler Reservoir fossil site, Snowmass Village, Colorado

    Open AccessJeffrey S Pigati, Ian M Miller et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2014

    The geologic setting of the Ziegler Reservoir fossil site is somewhat unusual — the sediments containing the Pleistocene fossils were deposited in a lake on top of a ridge. The lake basin was formed near Snowmass Village, Colorado (USA) when a glacier flowing down Snowmass Creek Valley became thick enough to overtop a low point in the eastern valley wall and entered the head of Brush Creek Valley. When the glacier retreated at about 155–130 ka, n…

  • Introduction to the Snowmastodon Project Special Volume The Snowmastodon Project

    Open AccessKirk R Johnson, Ian M Miller et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2014

    Studies of terrestrial biotic and environmental dynamics of Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage (MIS) 5, also called the Last Interglacial Period, provide insight into the effects of long-term climate change on Pleistocene ecosystems. In North America, however, there are relatively few fossil sites that definitively date to MIS 5. Even fewer contain multiple ecosystem components (vertebrates, invertebrates, plants) that have been studied in detail, and n…

  • Summary of the Snowmastodon Project Special Volume A high-elevation, multi-proxy biotic and environmental record of MIS 6–4 from the Ziegler Reservoir fossil site, Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA

    Open AccessIan M Miller, Jeffrey S Pigati et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2014

    In North America, terrestrial records of biodiversity and climate change that span Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage (MIS) 5 are rare. Where found, they provide insight into how the coupling of the ocean–atmosphere system is manifested in biotic and environmental records and how the biosphere responds to climate change. In 2010–2011, construction at Ziegler Reservoir near Snowmass Village, Colorado (USA) revealed a nearly continuous, lacustrine/wetland…

  • Biogeography of Pleistocene conifer species from the Ziegler Reservoir fossil site, Snowmass Village, Colorado

    Open AccessDane M Miller, Ian M Miller et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2014

    Pleistocene biogeography of conifer species is poorly known in much of western North America. We conducted morphological studies on 201 conifer cones and cone fragments recovered from Pleistocene sediments at the Ziegler Reservoir fossil site (2705 m) near Snowmass Village, Colorado. The basin, formed ~155–130 ka, contains fossil-bearing lacustrine, palustrine, and colluvial sediments spanning approximately 85 ka. Using a suite of morphological c…

  • Rebellion, crime and violence in Qing China, 1722-1911

    Open AccessIan M MillerARTICLEPoetics2013Cited by: 14References: 5