Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era, Hardcover - T. V. Paul

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The Rise of Global Powers: International Politics in the Era of the World Wars - Anthony D'Agostino

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): James T. LapsleyNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 24Cover type:...

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DescriptionAn accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In...

Empires Apart. America & Russia from the Vikings to Iraq - Brian Landers

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Hagen KooIllustration(s): 1 Maps; 13 ChartsNumber of pages: 162Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 ...

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Proverbs 22: 1 "A Good Name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold."

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The rediscovery of Babylon and Assyria in the 1840s transformed Western views on the origins of civilisation. The excavation of Nineveh proved that...

Publisher: World Scientific Europe LtdAuthor(s): Lisa (Italian Assoc For Cancer Research (Airc), Italy) VozzaNumber of pages: 268Publication date: ...

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DescriptionA leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and what this means for...

With cyclonic technologies like AI and automation sweeping the globe, established industries can be shaken up or taken down in less time and with l...

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DescriptionThe Korean War, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lebanon, El Salvador, Grenada, Iran-Contra, Nicaragua, Pan...

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DescriptionIn his urgent new book, T. J. Coles uncovers the forces seeking to uncouple Britain from the European Union. Allied to an expanding core...

Written by one of the world's foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires--the Roman, th...

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An illuminating picture book biography of an artist and former slave whose patchwork quilts bring the stories of her family to life. Harriet Powers...