Arthur Waldron
Autor/a de The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth (Canto original series)
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Obres de Arthur Waldron
From War to Nationalism: China's Turning Point, 1924-1925 (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and… (1995) 9 exemplars
How the Peace Was Lost: The 1935 Memorandum Developments Affecting American Policy in the Far East (Hoover Archival… (1992) 4 exemplars
The Art of War: Sun Zi's Military Methods 1 exemplars
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What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (1999) — Col·laborador — 1,764 exemplars
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1998 (1998) — Author "China Without Tears" — 14 exemplars
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In very short: walls were a matter of politics. He examines the politics. Ming in the main, but Ming make a typical story and similar debates went on in other eras. In fact the old debates - offence/defence, treaty or hostility - cycled and cycled... He tells you that.
Certainly where to go for an introduction to walls.