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The troubled empire : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties / Timothy Brook.
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Title:The troubled empire : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties / Timothy Brook.
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Author/Creator:Brook, Timothy, 1951-
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Published/Created:Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Call Number: DS752.3 .B76 2010
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Number of Items:3
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Status:Available
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects: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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Description:329 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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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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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-316) and index.
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ISBN:9780674046023 (alk. paper)
0674046021 (alk. paper)
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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
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