The troubled empire : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties / / Timothy Brook
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| Autore: |
Brook Timothy <1951->
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| Titolo: |
The troubled empire : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties / / Timothy Brook
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 951/.026 |
| Soggetto topico: | Despotism - China - History |
| Complexity (Philosophy) - Social aspects - China - History | |
| Commerce - Social aspects - China - History | |
| Commerce - Environmental aspects - China - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The troubled empire |
| ISBN: | 0-674-05620-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910464728003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
History of Imperial China