Restoring the World, 1945: Security and Empire at Yalta, Paperback - Nicolas W. Proctor

Reducere. The devastation of the Second World War is coming to an end. As victory for the Grand Alliance draws close, the leaders of Great Britain, the Sovie...

"A magisterial study...by a historian at the top of his game. Political theorists, intellectual historians, and students of empire are once again i...

Reducere. Behind this decision lay another. Whose forces would be the first to reach Berlin? General Dwight David Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Britis...

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Reducere. Winner of the Pritzker Prize for Military HistoryA New York Times Notable BookFrom one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that sh...

DescriptionThis text provides an innovative global military history that joins three periods--World War I, the interwar years, and World War II. Je...

Reducere. In this innovative new study, Zach Sell returns to the explosive era of capitalist crisis, upheaval, and warfare between emancipation in the Britis...

Michael Francis Laffan offers a sweeping exploration of two centuries of interactions among Muslim subjects of empires and nation-states around the...

Publisher: Tuttle PublishingAuthor(s): Jonathan ClementsIllustration(s): over 75 color and b&w photographs and mapsNumber of pages: 320Publication ...

This lively synthesis of global history since the end of World War II offers a gripping account of an interdependent world and the challenges facin...

Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-Day landings he had champ...

The story of what is arguably the most secret and misunderstood of all the British government departments.

An innovative volume tracing the long history of protection across empires in Asia, Africa, Australasia, Europe and the Americas. A group of leadin...

DescriptionTo mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war--proof that he was WWII's k...

Reducere. Dr. Scott W. Atlas examines the status of US health care under the Affordable Care Act and presents key reforms to meet the nation's significant he...

The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida's long history of publishing Latin America...

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A brilliantly original take on the First World War, tracing the Indian army's journey from a small professional service to a crucial part of the co...

Considers George Orwell's writing about the East, and the presence of the East in his writing and argues that in thinking of Orwell as an 'Anglo-In...

Pulling together many subject areas into one, this study of the Anglo/ Indian silk trade shows the complexity of the Empire by linking usually disp...

Reducere. What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over two hundred years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the ear...

Reducere. In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Is...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Eric HobsbawmEditor: Chris WrigleyPremier historian Eric Hobsbawm's brilliant study of the Industrial Revolution, which sol...

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov's iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a c...

Reducere. A wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the West by one of the most important public intellectu...

Isaac Asimov's ROBOT series - from the iconic collection I, ROBOT to four classic novels - contains some of the most influential works in the histo...

Reducere. Isaac Asimov's seminal Foundation trilogy--one of the cornerstones of modern speculative fiction--in a single hardcover volume. It is the saga of t...

During the Second Empire, from 1854 until 1870, the state had power over the Opera in ways that were without precedent. The Opera effectively becam...

Reducere. Most CEOs, HR leaders, and others have been led to believe that controlling health benefits costs isn't possible. The CEO's Guide to Restoring the ...

DescriptionHow did states come to monopolize control over migration? What do the processes that produced this monopoly tell us about the modern sta...

Live recording at the Philharmonic Hall Ateneu Bacau, Romania, 29. september 2013

Reducere. A snakeful of critical venom aimed at the composers and the classics of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music. Who wrote advanced cat music? What...

Reducere. Since the French Revolution, an extraordinary outpouring of Marian apparitions and mystical phenomena have been reported throughout the world. Alon...

Focusing on Britain and her Empire, this survey provides an introduction for readers coming to the subject for the first time. It covers the econom...

Anzac and Empire: George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of Australian Defence - John Connor

Reducere. The unification of Germany, the defeat of Austria, the fall of the Second Empire, the defeat of France, the alliance of the German Empire and the H...

A brand-new edition of the popular introductory textbook that explores how computer hardware, software, and networks work Computers are everywhere....

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Reducere. Mired in a crippling economic slump and hamstrung by partisan political debates, America faces substantial economic challenges, from widespread une...

Historians often view early modern Ireland as a testing ground for subsequent British colonial adventures further afield. McGrath argues against th...