The Great Wall of China : from history to myth /

A scholarly study of the Great Wall of China; draws both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Waldron, Arthur
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Colección:Cambridge studies in Chinese history, literature, and institutions.
Temas:
Great Wall of China (China)
Fortification > China.
Grande Muraille (Chine)
Fortifications > Chine.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
Fortification.
Geschichte
Verdedigingswerken.
Chinese muur.
Grande muraille de Chine.
China.
China > Great Wall of China.
Chinesische Mauer
China > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: What is the Great Wall of China?
  • Part I: First considerations
  • Early Chinese walls
  • Strategic origins of Chinese walls
  • Part II: The making of the Great Wall
  • Geography and strategy: the importance of the Ordos
  • Security without walls: early Ming strategy and its collapse
  • Toward a new strategy: the Ordos crisis and the first walls
  • Politics and military policy at the turn of the sixteenth century
  • The second debate over the Ordos
  • The heyday of wall-building
  • Part III: The significances of wall-building
  • The Great Wall and foreign policy: the problem of compromise
  • The Wall acquires new meanings
  • Glossary.

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