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The troubled empire : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties / Timothy Brook.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brook, Timothy, 1951- author.
- Series:
- History of Imperial China
- History of Imperial China ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Despotism--China--History.
- Despotism.
- Complexity (Philosophy)--Social aspects--China--History.
- Complexity (Philosophy).
- Commerce--Social aspects--China--History.
- Commerce.
- Commerce--Environmental aspects--China--History.
- China--History--Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368.
- China.
- China--History--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
- China--Environmental conditions.
- China--Economic conditions--To 1644.
- South China Sea--Commerce--History.
- South China Sea.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores the history of China between the Mongol reunification of China in 1279 under the Yuan dynasty and the Manchu invasion four centuries later, explaining how climate changes profoundly affected the empire during this period.
- Contents:
- Dragon spotting
- Scale
- The nine sloughs
- Khan and emperor
- Economy and ecology
- Families
- Beliefs
- The business of things
- The South China Sea
- Collapse
- Conclusion
- Temperature and precipitation extremes
- Succession of emperors
- Pronunciation guide.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-316) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780674056206
- 0674056205
- OCLC:
- 873806310
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