The Great Wall of China (Record no. 50932)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780521427074 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 951 WAL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Waldron, Arthur |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Great Wall of China |
| Remainder of title | : from history to myth |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | / Arthur Waldron |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | : Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 1990 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiii, 296 pages |
| Dimensions | 24cm. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Contents note | Introduction: What is the Great Wall of China? --<br/>Part I: First considerations --<br/>Early Chinese walls --<br/>Strategic origins of Chinese walls --<br/>Part II: The making of the Great Wall --<br/>Geography and strategy: the importance of the Ordos --<br/>Security without walls: early Ming strategy and its collapse --<br/>Toward a new strategy: the Ordos crisis and the first walls --<br/>Politics and military policy at the turn of the sixteenth century --<br/>The second debate over the Ordos --<br/>The heyday of wall-building --<br/>Part III: The significances of wall-building --<br/>The Great Wall and foreign policy: the problem of compromise --<br/>The Wall acquires new meanings --<br/>Glossary. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | A scholarly study of the Great Wall of China; draws both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | History |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | History of Asia |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | China & adjacent areas |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Northern China -- Fortifications: Great Wall of China, ancient period |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Chinese muur. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Waldron, Arthur |
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| Koha item type | Books |
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