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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)1990.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 296 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781316266106
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DS793 .G743 1990
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Part I: First considerations -- Early Chinese walls -- Strategic origins of Chinese walls -- Part II: 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 -- Part III: The significances of wall-building -- The Great Wall and foreign policy: the problem of compromise -- The Wall acquires new meanings -- Glossary.
Subject: A scholarly study of the Great Wall of China; draws both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction DS793.67 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn897379132

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: What is the Great Wall of China? -- Part I: First considerations -- Early Chinese walls -- Strategic origins of Chinese walls -- Part II: 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 -- Part III: The significances of wall-building -- The Great Wall and foreign policy: the problem of compromise -- The Wall acquires new meanings -- Glossary.

A scholarly study of the Great Wall of China; draws both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology.

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