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The troubled empire [Book] : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties / Timothy Brook.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.Description: 329 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0674046021 (alk. paper)
  • 9780674046023 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951.026 22
Other classification:
  • 951.026
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 -- The nine sloughs -- Succession of emperors -- Pronunciation guide.
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.
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Books Books Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad 951.026 BRO-T (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 41779
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-316) and index.

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 -- The nine sloughs -- Succession of emperors -- Pronunciation guide.

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.

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