01473nam a22002417a 4500999001700000005001700017008004100034020001800075082001200093100002000105245007100125260005200196300002800248505066300276520011100939650001301050650002001063650002701083650007401110650001801184700002001202942000901222 c50932d5093220190517144452.0190517b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d a9780521427074 a951 WAL aWaldron, Arthur aThe Great Wall of Chinab : from history to mythc/ Arthur Waldron aNew York b: Cambridge University Press, c1990 axiii, 296 pagesc24cm.  a 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. aA scholarly study of the Great Wall of China; draws both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology. aHistory  aHistory of Asia aChina & adjacent areas aNorthern China -- Fortifications: Great Wall of China, ancient period aChinese muur. aWaldron, Arthur cBOOK