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082			_a951 WAL
100			_aWaldron, Arthur
245			_aThe Great Wall of China _b : from history to myth _c/ Arthur Waldron
260			_aNew York _b: Cambridge University Press, _c1990
300			_axiii, 296 pages _c24cm.
505			_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.
520			_aA scholarly study of the Great Wall of China; draws both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology.
650			_aHistory
650			_aHistory of Asia
650			_aChina & adjacent areas
650			_aNorthern China -- Fortifications: Great Wall of China, ancient period
650			_aChinese muur.
700			_aWaldron, Arthur
942			_cBOOK