NINE SLOUGHS: PROFILING THE CLIMATE HISTORY OF THE YUAN AND MING DYNASTIES, 1260–1644<sup>†</sup>
Timothy Brook
I have written this essay to address what regard as a pressing need among China historians for stronger model of climate change and its impact on state society during the imperial period. We all become acutely conscious an element our own world, yet few us considered climate, particularly change, subjects study. is not without historians, collective research still in early phase. Aware problem some time, published preliminary findings form chronological profile anomalies through Yuan Ming dynasties 2010. Burying my textbook has meant that periodization offered there captured interest students but gone largely ignored by scholars field. Since then done further revised those findings, would now like offer fuller presentation methods findings.
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