The Military Collapse Of Chinas Ming Dynasty 161844 Kenneth M Swope by Kenneth M. Swope 9780415449274, 0415449278 instant download after payment.

This book examines the military collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty. The Ming’s defeat was surprising, not least because as recently as in the 1590s the Ming had managed to defeat a Japanese force considered to be perhaps the most formidable of its day when the latter attempted to subjugate Korea en route to a planned invasion of China. This book shows how the military collapse of the Ming state was due to the deterioration of the personal relationship between the Ming throne and the military establishment that had served as the cornerstone of the Ming military renaissance of the previous decades.
Moreover, this examines how a state with such tremendous military resources and potential could be defeated by numerically and technologically inferior foes. It concludes with a consideration of the fall of the Ming in light of contemporary conflicts and regime changes around the globe, drawing attention to climatological factors and developments outside state
control.