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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Dragon spotting
  • Scale
  • The nine sloughs
  • Khan and emperor
  • Economy and ecology
  • Families
  • Beliefs
  • The business of things
  • The South China Sea
  • Collapse
  • Temperature and precipitation extremes
  • The nine sloughs
  • Succession of emperors.