- Commerce, Environmental conditions, Despotism, Economic conditions
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.
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Earnest, grave, cool and plot-driven.
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- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Timothy Brook
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 329
- Publisher
- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780674046023
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