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Seller's Description:
Fine in fine jacket. Several maps, some black & white illustrations. 329 pages. Slim 8vo, black cloth-backed blue boards with gilt lettering at the spine, pictorial d.w. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2010. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.
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Good in Good jacket. 1st Printing. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. pp. 329. Ex-library with the usual library markings (if not for the library markings this copy would be graded in fine condition); overall a nice used copy! Blue boards quarterbound by black with silver lettering on the spine. 329 informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! "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. The Troubled Empire explores what happened to China between these two dramatic invasions. If anything defined the complex dynamics of this period, it was changes in the weather. Asia, like Europe, experienced a Little Ice Age, and as temperatures fell in the thirteenth century, Kublai Khan moved south into China. His Yuan dynasty collapsed in less than a century, but Mongol values lived on in Ming institutions. A second blast of cold in the 1630s, combined with drought, was more than the dynasty could stand, and the Ming fell to Manchu invaders. Against this background? the first coherent ecological history of China in this period? Timothy Brook explores the growth of autocracy, social complexity, and commercialization, paying special attention to China's incorporation into the larger South China Sea economy. These changes not only shaped what China would become but contributed to the formation of the early modern world...."
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
