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The troubled empire : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties / Timothy Brook.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brook, Timothy, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commerce--Environmental aspects.
- History.
- Commerce.
- Commerce--Social aspects.
- Complexity (Philosophy).
- Social aspects.
- Despotism.
- Environmental conditions.
- China--History--Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368.
- China.
- China--History--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
- China--Environmental conditions.
- China--Economic conditions--To 1644.
- Economic conditions.
- South China Sea--Commerce--History.
- South China Sea.
- Despotism--China--History.
- Complexity (Philosophy)--Social aspects--China--History.
- Commerce--Social aspects--China--History.
- Commerce--Environmental aspects--China--History.
- South China Sea Region.
- Physical Description:
- 329 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Dragon spotting
- Scale
- The nine sloughs
- Autocracy
- Economy/ecology
- Families
- Beliefs
- The business of culture
- The South China Sea
- Collapse
- Precipitation and temperature, 1260-1644
- The nine sloughs of the Yuan and Ming dynasties
- Succession of emperors, 1271-1644
- Pronunciation guide.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674046023
- 0674046021
- OCLC:
- 456169856
- Publisher Number:
- 99937518130
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