The First Great Powers: Babylon and Assyria, Hardcover - Arthur Cotterell

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

Reducere. DescriptionThis book utilizes a new harmonized chronology for the reigns of the thirty-eight kings and one queen who ruled during the period of the...

Why great powers decline, from Spain to the United States The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America los...

Now reissued in new covers, Arthur Cotterell's fascinating book sets out clearly the chief myths of the world and explains why different mythologie...

Tells the story of the first nation-wide economic collapse to strike the US. The Panic introduced Americans to the new phenomenon of boom and bust,...

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

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Josette Elayi's Sennacherib, King of Assyria is the only extant biography of Sargon II's infamous son. This critical resource for students and scho...

DescriptionAt the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as the world's most powerful state, and then used that power to initiate wars agai...

Reducere. Did you know that Alexander the Great was barely in his thirties by the time he had conquered all of Asia Minor?Alexander of Macedon was only thirt...

Reducere. Did you know that Alexander the Great was barely in his thirties by the time he had conquered all of Asia Minor? Alexander of Macedon was only thir...

Reducere. After the end of the Cold War, it seemed as if Southeast Asia would remain a geopolitically stable region within the American-led order for the for...

Reducere. The 2000-year story of Babylon sees it moving from a city-state to the centre of a great empire of the ancient world. It remained a centre of kings...

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

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Reducere. Content: The Ice Folk and the Earth Folk Ohio as a Part of France Ohio Becomes English The Forty Years' War for the West The Captivity of James Smi...

The present volume provides answers to contemporary questions in international relations by introducing a typology of great power grand strategies,...

Reducere. In the spring of 1793, eighteen-year-old Nancy Randolph, the fetching daughter of one of the greatest of the great Virginia tobacco planters, was a...

DescriptionAs a rising great power flexes its muscles on the political-military scene it must examine how to manage its relationships with states s...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rob SkibaWhat do the Mayan prophecies, the Aztec Calendar Stone, the symbols on America's Great Seal and the U.S. Capitol B...

Contributor(s): Author: Timothy J. StephanyWhen the two primeval waters, the salt and fresh water, entered into marriage, and brought into being th...

Reducere. The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of BabylonThe Babylonian influence upon its successors and even modern society knows no bounds. One of the leading ...

Since the mid-twentieth century, the United States and Saudi Arabia have built a close but often troubled alliance. In this critical history, Victo...

A major work setting out the inextricable link between politics and religion over the past two centuries, from the French Revolution to the present...

Where the implications of war and peace are open to question, the possibility of change depends more on politics than economics. This book asks whe...

Reducere. In History Comics: The Great Chicago Fire, writer Kate Hannigan and illustrator Alex Graudins tell the true story of how a city rose up from one of...

Reducere. Something strange is happening in superopolis The entire population has turned its back on its favorite potato chips of all time--just because some...

Reducere. It was supposed to be a car dealership. Instead, it became one of the most famous American music venues of all time...Only one place in the whole w...

A highly illustrated introductory account of the aircraft and aces of the nations that participated in aerial combat during the First World War. Th...

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Reducere. The ancient world comes to life in the first volume in a two book series on the history of Egypt, spanning the first farmers to the construction of...