01487nam a22002417a 4500 50932 50932 20190517144452.0 190517b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780521427074 951 WAL Waldron, Arthur The Great Wall of China : from history to myth / Arthur Waldron New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990 xiii, 296 pages 24cm. Introduction: What is the Great Wall of China? -- Part I: First considerations -- Early Chinese walls -- Strategic origins of Chinese walls -- Part II: The making of the Great Wall -- Geography and strategy: the importance of the Ordos -- Security without walls: early Ming strategy and its collapse -- Toward a new strategy: the Ordos crisis and the first walls -- Politics and military policy at the turn of the sixteenth century -- The second debate over the Ordos -- The heyday of wall-building -- Part III: The significances of wall-building -- The Great Wall and foreign policy: the problem of compromise -- The Wall acquires new meanings -- Glossary. A scholarly study of the Great Wall of China; draws both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology. History History of Asia China & adjacent areas Northern China -- Fortifications: Great Wall of China, ancient period Chinese muur. Waldron, Arthur BOOK