TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brook,Timothy
TI  - The troubled empire: China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties 
T2  - History of imperial China
SN  - 9780674046023 (alk. paper)
AV  - DS752.3 .B76 2010
U1  - 951/.026 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Despotism
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - Complexity (Philosophy)
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Yuandynastie
KW  - swd
KW  - Mingdynastie
KW  - Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368
KW  - Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
KW  - Environmental conditions
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - To 1644
KW  - South China Sea
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-316) and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -