The East Asian World-System: Climate and Dynastic Change

By Eugene N. Anderson

Theoretical Overview.- Cycles and Cycling.- Before Empire: State Formation in China and Proto-states Elsewhere.- The Creation of Stable Dynastic Empires in East and Southeast Asia.- High Empire: The Glory Days of Early Medieval Eastern Asia.- The Rise of Central Asia: Coastal Golden Ages Increasingly Threatened by Conquest Dynasties from the Deep Interior.- The Mongol Conquests of China and Korea and Invasion of Japan.- Long-lived Dynasties: Ming and Its Contemporaries.- The Early Modern Period in the East Asian World-System.- Lessons: Factors Driving the Rise and Fall of Dynasties.- Comparisons: Cycles and Empires in Agrarian Worlds.- What East Asia's Dynamics Teach Us about Climate, Society, and Change in the Modern and Future World.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030168697
• ISBN13: 9783030168698
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"