The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China by Timothy Brook

The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China

Timothy Brook

256 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history
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How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history’s mighty empiresIn 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of C...

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