The Great Wall of China : from history to myth / Arthur Waldron.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1990Description: xiii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 052142707X
- 9780521427074
- 951
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 951 WAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A113221B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-278) and index.
1. Introduction: what is the Great Wall of China? -- Part I. First Considerations: -- 2. Early Chinese walls -- 3. Strategic origins of Chinese walls -- Part II. The Making of the Great Wall: -- 4. Geography and strategy: the importance of the Ordos -- 5. Security without walls: early Ming strategy and its collapse -- 6. Toward a new strategy: the Ordos crisis and the first walls -- 7. Politics and military policy at the turn of the sixteenth century -- 8. The second debate over the Ordos -- 9. The heyday of wall-building -- Part III. The Significance of Wall-Building: -- 10. The Great Wall and foreign policy: the problem of compromise -- 11. The Wall acquires new meanings.
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