An edition of The troubled empire (2010)

The troubled empire

China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties

  • 2 Want to read
The troubled empire
Timothy Brook, Timothy Brook
Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

  • 2 Want to read

Buy this book

Last edited by MARC Bot
September 28, 2025 | History
An edition of The troubled empire (2010)

The troubled empire

China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties

  • 2 Want to read

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.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
329

Buy this book

Edition Availability
Cover of: The troubled empire
The troubled empire: China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties
2010, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
in English

Add another edition?

Book Details


Table of Contents

Dragon spotting
Scale
The nine sloughs
Autocracy
Economy/ecology
Families
Beliefs
The business of culture
The South China Sea
Collapse
Precipitation and temperature, 1260-1644
The nine sloughs of the Yuan and Ming dynasties
Succession of emperors, 1271-1644
Pronunciation guide.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, Mass

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
951/.026
Library of Congress
DS752.3 .B76 2010, DS752

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
329

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24110231M
ISBN 13
9780674046023
LCCN
2010007195
OCLC/WorldCat
456169856

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL18778208W

Community Reviews (0)

No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation