The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties by Brook, Timothy - 2010

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010-06-15. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Cambridge: Belknap Press, 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/>

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 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… Read More