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

This volume 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. The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Ch...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brook, Timothy, 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
Colección:History of imperial China.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This volume 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. The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire, a millennium and a half in the making, was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer what it would be in the future. Four centuries later, another wave of steppe invaders would replace the Ming dynasty with yet another foreign occupation.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-316) and index.
ISBN:9780674056206
0674056205