Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Date: 2010. Hardcover. VG/VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Book is otherwise very clean and clear.). Blue paper over boards with navy cloth spine; gilt spine lettering; color illustrated dust jacket with mylar cover; 329 pp; illustrated in bw throughout. This volume 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. 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. 2010. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press ISBN 0674046021 US

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, Date: 2010. Near Fine condition. 1 sentence only highlighted in the first chapter. All other pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Illustrated with 7 maps and 18 figures. List of chapter notes. Extensive bibliography. Index. A volume from the History of Imperial China series, Timothy Brooks, General Editor. Bound in the original blue boards with black cloth spine stamped in bright silver. From the publisher: "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 ...

Cambridge: Belknap Press, Date: 2010. hardcover. fine/fine. 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.<br/> <br/> 2010. Belknap Press ISBN 0674046021 9780674046023 [US]