| Description |
1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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text file PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
History of imperial China
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History of imperial China.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-316) and index. |
| Contents |
Dragon spotting -- Scale -- The nine sloughs -- Khan and emperor -- Economy and ecology -- Families -- Beliefs -- The business of things -- The South China Sea -- Collapse -- Temperature and precipitation extremes -- The nine sloughs -- Succession of emperors. |
| Summary |
This volume 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. The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire, a millennium and a half in the making, was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer what it would be in the future. Four centuries later, another wave of steppe invaders would replace the Ming dynasty with yet another foreign occupation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
China -- History -- Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368.
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China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
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Civilization, Oriental -- History.
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Civilization, Oriental. |
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History. |
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China -- Civilization -- History.
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China. |
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Civilization. |
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China -- Environmental conditions.
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Environmental conditions. |
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China -- Economic conditions -- To 1644.
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| Chronological Term |
To 1644 |
| Subject |
South China Sea -- Commerce -- History.
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South China Sea. |
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Economic conditions. |
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South China Sea Region. |
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Commerce -- Social aspects -- China -- History.
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Commerce. |
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Commerce -- Environmental aspects -- China -- History.
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Commerce -- Environmental aspects. |
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HISTORY -- Asia -- China. |
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Commerce -- Social aspects. |
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HISTORY -- Medieval. |
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Ecology. |
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Economic history. |
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Yuan Dynasty (China) |
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China -- Politik -- Geschichte Yuán-Dynastie (1271-1368) |
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China -- Politik -- Geschichte Míng-Dynastie (1368-1644) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brook, Timothy, 1951- Troubled empire. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010 9780674046023 (DLC) 2010007195 (OCoLC)456169856 |
| ISBN |
9780674056206 (electronic book) |
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0674056205 (electronic book) |
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9780674046023 |
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0674046021 |
| Standard No. |
10.4159/9780674056206 |
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