1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464728003321

Autore

Brook Timothy <1951->

Titolo

The troubled empire : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties / / Timothy Brook

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, , 2010

ISBN

0-674-05620-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Collana

History of Imperial China ; ; 5

Disciplina

951/.026

Soggetti

Despotism - China - History

Complexity (Philosophy) - Social aspects - China - History

Commerce - Social aspects - China - History

Commerce - Environmental aspects - China - History

Electronic books.

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-316) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996384806703316

Titolo

Brethren in iniquity, or, The confederacy of Papists with sectaries, for the destroying of the true religion, as by law establish'd, plainly detected [[electronic resource] ] : wherein is shewed a farther account of the Romish snares and intrigues for the destroying the true reformed religion, as professed in the Church of England, and established by law, and for the introducing of popery or atheism among us : clearly shewing from very authentick writers and testimonies, that the principal ways and methods whereby the papists have sought the ruine of our religion and church, from the beginning of our Reformation, to the present times, and by which they are still in hopes of compassing it, are by promoting of toleration, or pretended liberty of conscience, and that for above these sixscore years the papists have so craftily influenced our dissenters, as to make them the unhappy instruments of effecting their most pernicious designs, which they contrived for, the subverting our church and state

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed, and are to be sold by Randal Taylor, 1690

Descrizione fisica

[4], 67 p. ; ; 19 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113