The East Asian World-System Climate and Dynastic Change /

• Main Author: Anderson, Eugene N. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures,
• Subjects: Demography.; Climate change.; Asia-History.; Population.; Anthropology.; Climate Change.; Asian History.; Population Economics.

This book studies the East Asian world-system and its dynastic cycles as they were influenced by climate and demographic change, diseases, the expansion of trade, and the rise of science and technology. By studying the history of East Asia until the beginning of the 20th century and offering a compa...

Table of Contents:

• 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.