Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border, Hardcover - Soren Urbansky

DescriptionThe Sino-Russian border, once the world's longest land border, has received scant attention in histories about the margins of empires. B...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Soeren UrbanskyIllustration(s): 35 b/w illus. 4 tables.Number of pages: 392Collection: Studies of t...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): David L. GoslingIllustration(s): 28 bw integrated, 2 mapsNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2015D...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Russia, then keep reading...Four captivating manuscripts in one book: Russian History: A Captiva...

Focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians. The conflict was marked by years of seemingly random theft and v...

Reducere. Human rights activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been described as ``a force of nature on the page and off.`` That force is fully prese...

Reducere. Hanna and Andreas will do anything to leave oppressive East Germany behind. There's one escape route open to them, but can they survive it? Hanna a...

Stretching from the Volga River to the Caspian Sea, the Great Steppe is a vast region as mysterious today as it was a thousand years ago.

This book addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands.

Reducere. Baron Roman Fedorovich von Ungern-Sternberg (1885-1921) was a Baltic German aristocrat and tsarist military officer who fought against the Bolshevi...

Reducere. Discover the Captivating History of Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation as it is officially known, is the world's largest country and covers a...

When so much in Russia has changed, the banya remains. For over one thousand years Russians of every economic class, political party, and social st...

The New York Times bestselling author of Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, Joanna Ho, delivers a poignant picture book biography about the musician Yo...

Reducere. DescriptionAs a border county in a border state, Barbour County, West Virginia felt the full terror and tragedy of the Civil War. With a meticulous...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Second Sino-Japanese War, then keep reading...Many people in the West look upon the Second S...

Description20th-century Russian history comes to life through six generations of a family in their Moscow apartment The Apartment: A Century of Rus...

Reducere. A rare look at the exquisite world of Russian treasures that lies beyond Faberg . Imperial Russia evokes images of a vanished court's unparalleled ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating life of Ivan the Terrible, then keep reading...Considering that he has gone down in history as Ivan the Ter...

Reducere. When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's Westward Expansion set a new standard for scholarship in western American his...

DescriptionConflict on the early American Frontier This is the fascinating and bloody story of the American frontier of the eighteenth century-wher...

Reducere. Winner, Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, Vernacular Architecture Forum, 2020 From the boundary surveys of the 1850s to the ever-expanding fences and h...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of Russia, then keep reading...Four captivating manuscripts in one book: Russian History...

"Terrific." -Timothy Egan, The New York Times "A riveting investigation of both American myth-making and the real history that lies beneath." -Clau...

The first comprehensive, in-depth book on the Trump administration's assault on asylum protections. The first book to take on the inhumane debacle ...

Kyle J. Gardner reveals how colonial border-making practices in the Himalayas transformed a historical crossroads into a disputed borderland and ge...

This volume celebrates the twenty-fifth Congress of Roman Frontier Studies. It presents the history of the congress accompanied by photographs and ...

All farming in prehistoric Europe ultimately came from elsewhere in one way or another, unlike the growing numbers of primary centers of domesticat...

Publisher: New Island BooksNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 224 x 277 x 35Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): James Conor Patterson...

Reducere. DescriptionA part of Harper Perennial's special "Resistance Library" highlighting classic works that illuminate the "Age of Trump" Soren Kierkegaar...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. This is the third book regarding the history and mystery of El Paso, Texas. This volumje covers unsolved mysteries, lost treasures and hauntings in...

Reducere. Moving through the jungle near the Cambodian border on May 18, 1967, a company of American infantry observed three North Vietnamese Army regulars, ...

This comprehensive book is the first to chronicle both wars and document the sites on which they were fought. It sheds light on how the wars led to...

Reducere. In Deep Woods Frontier, Theodore J. Karamanski examines the interplay between men and technology in the lumbering of Michigan's rugged Upper Penins...

Reducere. Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in ...

Reducere. Between 1910 and 1920, thousands of Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals were killed along the Texas border. The killers included strangers and ...

Reducere. DescriptionAmerica's elite warriors are put through hell in training so they can survive any real special operations.Hell Week and Beyond will take...

Reducere. What happened to Imperial Russia?Russia has long been a powerful country. Even today, Russia stands as one of the great powers on the planet. But m...

DescriptionWinner of the 2012 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award (non-US). Most studies of the Sino-Japanese War are presented f...

For an element so firmly fixed in American culture, the frontier myth is surprisingly flexible. How else to explain its having taken two such diffe...

Reducere. Description"For most people in the U.K., Mid Wales and its border with England will be somewhere vague, a landscape largely unknown and barely cons...

Reducere. The Russian River has drawn tourists to its colossal redwoods, picturesque seashore and idyllic resorts for more than a century. This collection of...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States. Often described as the longest undefended border i...

Reducere. The astonishing last days of the Russian imperial dynastyThe principal work in this special Leonaur edition caused a sensation when it was first pu...