The Frontier Complex. Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846-1962, New ed, Paperback - ***

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

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Manoj JoshiNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 148 x 224 x 33Cover type: Hardbac...

Reducere. Women of the New Mexico Frontier, 1846-1912 is a collection of essays that include biographical sketches and writings from women of all walks of li...

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

Publisher: Persephone Books LtdAuthor(s): Frances Hodgson BurnettNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2001Dimensions: 192 x 140 x 27Cover type: Pa...

An accessible re-evaluation of the US-Israel relationship, this book provides critical background on the origins and development of the 'special' r...

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

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

Reducere. Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance When Donald Trump promised to "build a wall" on the U.S.-Mexico bord...

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This study focuses on the spread of print in colonial India towards the middle and end of the nineteenth century. This Element will look at this ph...

*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingBritish India ultimately covered ...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncNumber of pages: 392Collection: Modern South AsiaPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 242 x 162 x 28Cover type: ...

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. Rare earths are elements that are found in the Earth's crust, and are vital ingredients for the production of a wide variety of high tech, defense,...

Ishita Pande's innovative study tells a wide-ranging story about the importance of debates over child protection to India's coming of age, examinin...

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

A generation ago, they wrote Beyond the Fragments. Inspired by the activism of the 1970s and facing the imminent triumph of the Right under Margare...

DescriptionSince its founding in 1956 in Spain's Basque region, the Mondrag n Corporation has been a touchstone for the international cooperative m...

The threat of cyberwar can feel very Hollywood: nuclear codes hacked, power plants melting down, cities burning. In reality, state-sponsored hackin...

Leading historians, anthropologists, educators and designers explore the role of materiality in medical education. With a broad focus, internationa...

The book is necessary reading for political theorists and scholars interested in democracy and the welfare state, providing a new analysis of the r...

This Element argues that community-initiated migrant heritage harbours the potential to challenge and expand state-sanctioned renderings of multicu...

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

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Daniel S. (Senior Research Professor in International Relations, Senior Research Professor in Inte...

A first look at how the world's rising powers began international oil empires amidst one of Africa's longest and deadliest civil war.

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every coun...

Reducere. Shame influences more of our thoughts and actions than many other emotions. Used as a punishment for bad behavior, shame acts as an incentive for u...

Rozsika Parker's re-evaluation of the reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery has brought stitchery out from the private world of fema...

Long before Greeks dominated the ancient Mediterranean, Phoenicians were the lords of the sea. Setting out from their Levantine cities, they introd...

The first book-length analysis of an often secretive but mutually beneficial military and strategic partnership.

Reducere. Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Banglade...

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Reducere. This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from the recent proliferation of specialized scholarship on the per...

The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civiliza...

Reducere. Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with...

Reducere. Against the backgrounds of World War II, the Cold War, the construction of Pax Americana, the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination, and ...

Reducere. Ralph Roberts, actor, masseur, and former Pentagon liaison, could frequently be found in the kitchen of Lee Strasberg's NYC apartment on Central Pa...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Saptarishi (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University) Ba...

"One of the finest books on information security published so far in this century--easily accessible, tightly argued, superbly well-sourced, intimi...

This book argues for the need to consider many other factors, drawn from disciplines such as socio-biology, evolutionary psychology, the study of t...

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