Waldron, Arthur, <br/><br/>
The Great Wall of China :  from history to myth / 
Arthur Waldron. 
 - xiii, 296 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-278) and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction: what is the Great Wall of China? --  First Considerations: --  Early Chinese walls --  Strategic origins of Chinese walls --  The Making of the Great Wall: --  Geography and strategy: the importance of the Ordos --  Security without walls: early Ming strategy and its collapse --  Toward a new strategy: the Ordos crisis and the first walls --  Politics and military policy at the turn of the sixteenth century --  The second debate over the Ordos --  The heyday of wall-building --  The Significance of Wall-Building: --  The Great Wall and foreign policy: the problem of compromise --  The Wall acquires new meanings.  1.  Part I.  2.  3.  Part II.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  Part III.  10.  11. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>052142707X 9780521427074 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Great Wall of China (China)<br/>China--History
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>951