Waldron, Arthur. <br/><br/>
The Great Wall of China :  from history to myth / 
Arthur Waldron. 
 - Cambridge [England] ;  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  (c)1990. 
 - 1 online resource (xiii, 296 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) :  illustrations 
 - Cambridge studies in Chinese history, literature, and institutions .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> A scholarly study of the Great Wall of China; draws both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781316266106 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Great Wall of China (China)<br/>Fortification--China.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS793  / .G743 1990