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

By:

Waldron, Arthur [Author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: 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

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

DS793 .G743 1990

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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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
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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