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  • The Ming World
    Kenneth M Swope
    The Ming World brings China’s Ming Dynasty (1368-1662) to life, exploring recent scholarly trends and academic debates that highlight the dynamism of the Ming and its key place in the early modern world. It is essential reading for scholars and postgraduates of early modern China, or the history of East Asia. ...
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    87,91 €

  • Dragon’s Head and A Serpent’s Tail
    Kenneth M. Swope
    The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and the most tragic for the Korean peninsula until the mid-twentieth century. Japanese overlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi envisioned conquering Korea, Ming China, and eventually all of Asia; but Korea’s appeal to China’s Emperor Wanli for assi...
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    34,76 €

  • The Military Collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty, 1618-44
    Kenneth M. Swope
    This book examines the military collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty to a combination of foreign and domestic foes. The Ming’s defeat was a highly surprising development, not least because as recently as in the 1590s the Ming had managed to defeat a Japanese force considered to be perhaps the most formidable of its day when the latter attempted to subjugate Korea en-route to a plan...
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    83,79 €