Brook, Timothy,  1951- <br/><br/>
The troubled empire :  China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties / 
Timothy Brook. 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :  Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,  2010. 
 - 329 p. :  ill., maps ;  25 cm. 
 - History of imperial China .
 - History of imperial China. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-316) and index. 
<br/><br/>Dragon spotting -- Scale -- The nine sloughs -- Khan and emperor -- Economy and ecology -- Families -- Beliefs -- The business of things -- The South China Sea -- Collapse -- Conclusion -- Temperature and precipitation extremes -- The nine sloughs -- Succession of emperors -- Pronunciation guide. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674046023 (alk. paper) 0674046021 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010007195 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Despotism--History.--China<br/>Complexity (Philosophy)--Social aspects--History.--China<br/>Commerce--Social aspects--History.--China<br/>Commerce--Environmental aspects--History.--China<br/>Yuandynastie<br/>Mingdynastie
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>China--History--Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368.<br/>China--History--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.<br/>China--Environmental conditions.<br/>China--Economic conditions--To 1644.<br/>South China Sea--Commerce--History.<br/>China
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS752.3  / .B76 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>951/.026