The troubled empire [Book] : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties / Timothy Brook.
Material type:
- 0674046021 (alk. paper)
- 9780674046023 (alk. paper)
- Despotism -- China -- History
- Complexity (Philosophy) -- Social aspects -- China -- History
- Commerce -- Social aspects -- China -- History
- Commerce -- Environmental aspects -- China -- History
- China -- History -- Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368
- China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
- China -- Environmental conditions
- China -- Economic conditions -- To 1644
- South China Sea -- Commerce -- History
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- 951.026
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad | 951.026 BRO-T (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 41779 |
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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