TY - BOOK AU - Brook,Timothy TI - The troubled empire: China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties AV - DS752.3 .B76 2010eb U1 - 951/.026 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts 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 - Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368 KW - Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 KW - Environmental conditions KW - Economic conditions KW - To 1644 KW - South China Sea KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10844214 ER -