The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia, Hardcover - James Bradley

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Popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to implement affordable universal h...

Reducere. DescriptionAre war clouds gathering in Asia? Will China make good on threats to invade Taiwan? What would this conflict mean for America and the wo...

Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times bestselling author, looks at the history of the battle again...

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In Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana: The Worst Maritime Disaster in American History paroled prisoners, civilian passengers, guards, crewmember...

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The Black Flags raided their way from southern China into northern Vietnam, competing during the second half of the nineteenth century against othe...

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DescriptionIn the late nineteenth century, a conviction that China was somehow weaker than other political states in Asia and the West spread acros...

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DescriptionToday the Korean War of 1950-1953 is overshadowed by later twentieth-century conflicts in Vietnam and the Middle East, yet at the time i...

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Soon after the American Revolution, ?certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast mat...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of East Asia, then keep reading...Four captivating manuscripts in one book: History of China: A Cap...

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Reducere. Tea in China explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an everyday commodity an...

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An in-depth analysis of the 'Africa rising' narrative and how the continent's fragile economic growth is largely tied to China's expansion.

Reducere. On the success of his two bestselling books about World War II, James Bradley began to wonder what the real catalyst was for the Pacific War. What ...

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The history inscribed in New England's meetinghouses waits to be told. There, colonists gathered for required worship on the Sabbath, for town meet...

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DescriptionSummer 1942 and the war in the Middle East is in the balance; Rommel's Axis forces are poised on the borders of Egypt and all that is ne...

DescriptionA discerning account of simmering conflict in the South China Sea and why the world can't afford to be indifferent China's rise has upse...

DescriptionAfter the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union tried to exert its political influence on the Asian continent. A major pillar of...

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Reducere. Award NameChristopher AwardsAward categoryBooks for AdultsIt was December 3, 1984. In the ancient city of Bhopal, a cloud of toxic gas escaped from...

Reducere. A devastating loss of life and a community's response March 4, 1908, was an ordinary morning in Collinwood, Ohio, a village about ten miles outside...

Reducere. James Lilley's life and family have been entwined with China's fate since his father moved to the country to work for Standard Oil in 1916. Lilley ...

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