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Author:

Slavicek, Louise Chipley, 1956-

Title:

The Great Wall of China / Louise Chipley Slavicek ; foreword by George J. Mitchell ; introduction by James I. Matray.

Publisher:

Chelsea House,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

x, 118 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Great Wall of China (China)--History--Juvenile literature.
China--History--Juvenile literature.
Great Wall of China (China)--History.
China--History.
Great Wall of China (China)--History.
China--History.

Notes:

"Political boundaries in world history." Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-111) and index.

Contents:

China's legendary northern wall -- Before the Great Wall - China's first Great Wall: the wall of Qin Shi Huang Di -- The Great Wall of the Han dynasty -- From the period of disunity through the Mongol conquest: the Great Wall in war and peace -- The Ming wall -- The Great Wall in Western and Chinese eyes.

Summary:

Chronicles the construction of China's Great Wall from the third century B.C. to the fifteenth century A.D., describing the politics that surrounded it throughout the dynasties, and discusses its legacy.

Series:

Arbitrary borders

ISBN:

9780791094501
0791094502
0791094502 (set ; lib. bdg.)
9780791094501 (set ; lib. bdg.)
0791080196 (lib. bdg.)
9780791080191 (lib. bdg.)

LCCN:

2004010127

Locations:

SYPB124 -- Elizabeth Rasmussen Martin Memorial Lib. (New Hartford)