| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiv, 236 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : black & white illustrations |
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text file rda |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227) and index. |
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Heaven inverted: China on the eve of the Mongol invasion -- Bystanders to destruction: the Mongol reduction of northern China -- All under heaven: Song's long war begins -- Feeding the beast: Song resistance on the Yangzi and Huai and the end of the Mongol world empire -- Rumors of a war: court politics and the War of Attrition -- A Chinese civil war? The fall of Fancheng and Xiangyang -- Horses on heaven's wide plain: the loss of Hangzhou and the flight of the Song court -- Child emperors and suicides: the end of the Song dynasty -- The phoenix and the dragon: the ghosts of the Song and the fall of the Yuan -- Epilogue: a poisoned wound? China after the expulsion of the Mongols. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
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Mongols -- China -- History.
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China -- History -- Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368.
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China -- History -- Jin dynasty, 1115-1234.
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China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644.
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China -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279.
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| Added Author |
Man, John, 1941- contributor.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Waterson, James. Defending heaven London : Frontline Books, [2013] 9781848326606 (DLC) 2013474608 |
| ISBN |
9781783469437 : $16.99 |
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1783469439 : $16.99 |
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