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The Great Wall of China : from history to myth / Arthur Waldron.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1990Description: xiii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 052142707X
  • 9780521427074
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951
Contents:
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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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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