The troubled empire : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties - Brook, Timothy, 1951- (Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010)
Explores the history of China between the Mongol reunification of China in 1279 under the Yuan dynasty and the Manchu invasion four centuries later, explaining how climate changes profoundly affected the empire during this period
Includes bibliographical references p. 297-316 and index
Keywords: Despotism -- China -- History; Complexity (Philosophy) -- Social aspects -- China -- History; Commerce -- Social aspects -- China -- History; Commerce -- Environmental aspects -- China -- History; China -- History -- Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368; China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644; China -- Environmental conditions; China -- Economic conditions -- To 1644; South China Sea -- Commerce -- History