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"""The Price of Collapse is a little gem.""---Rana Mitter, Literary Review ""The subject of Timothy Brook’s book, the demise of the Ming dynasty, offers a chilling warning of a cost-of-living crisis driven by climate-induced food precarity.""---Peter Coates, Times Literary Supplement ""The Price of Collapse is an exemplary work on a well-researched topic—the fall of Ming China—from a set of unique perspectives, such as price history and the history of climate. . . . This is an inspiring extended reading of the author’s award-winning book The Confusions of Pleasure, helping readers fully understand the rise and fall of Ming China, once the center of global trade, through a new lens. . . . Highly recommended."" * Choice Reviews *"

"""The Price of Collapse is a little gem.""---Rana Mitter, Literary Review"

"""The Price of Collapse is a little gem.""---Rana Mitter, Literary Review ""The subject of Timothy Brook’s book, the demise of the Ming dynasty, offers a chilling warning of a cost-of-living crisis driven by climate-induced food precarity.""---Peter Coates, Times Literary Supplement"

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Timothy Brook is professor emeritus of history at the University of British Columbia and a fellow of the British Academy. His many books include Great State, Mr. Selden's Map of China, and Vermeer's Hat.

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