The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia

The Temptations of Trade reveals the opportunities and tensions of doing business in regions far from strict imperial control, where the actions of...

Examines the goals and influence of U.S. policy towards Central America, and identifies supporters and opponents of this policy.

Reducere. Noam Chomsky addresses relations throughout Central America and relates these to superpower conflicts and the overall impact of the Cold War on int...

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...

Reducere. Transoxania, Khurasan, and ?ukharistan - which comprise large parts of today's Central Asia - have long been an important frontier zone. In the lat...

The fascinating story of the pioneers who explored vast regions of Central Asia, India and Tibet to create maps, and spy out the country for milita...

The Great Game of Numbers

For much of recorded history, China was a leading science and technology power. But just as the West rose, China turned in on itself, and missed th...

Publisher: Prentice Hall PressAuthor(s): Tim CookNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 240 x 45Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

A thrilling and incisive examination of the post-Reconstruction era struggle for and suppression of African American voting rights in the United St...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Mughal Empire, then keep reading...The Mughal Empire, also known as the Moghul Empire, laste...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Mughal Empire, then keep reading...The Mughal Empire, also known as the Moghul Empire, laste...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Aaron L. FriedbergThere may be no denying China's growing economic strength, but its impact on the global balance of power ...

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Reducere. This classic book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of Slovakia, from its establishment on the Danubian Plain to the present. Wh...

Reducere. Expansive and ambitious yet comprehensive and coherent, From Slavery to Services: The Struggle for Economic Independence in the Caribbean is a tour...

A classic book from the bestselling travel writer and historian, Charles Allen, author of Plain Tales from the Raj, first published by Abacus in 1983.

Reducere. What happened to Imperial Russia?Russia has long been a powerful country. Even today, Russia stands as one of the great powers on the planet. But m...

DescriptionThe Avars arrived in Europe from the Central Asian steppes in the mid-sixth century CE and dominated much of Central and Eastern Europe ...

Reducere. The Mediterranean is the maritime crossroads where Europe, Asia, and Africa meet. More major naval actions were fought there than in the Atlantic o...

DescriptionA penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealt...

DescriptionPyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Greek invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 3...

Aiming to connect a number of divergent perspectives on the current state of Afghanistan, this book outlines the country's past and present instabi...

The Imperial Security State: British Colonial Knowledge and Empire-Building in Asia - James Hevia

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Ronald A. BleekerIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

DescriptionFinancial inclusion and financial education are becoming increasingly recognized as key requirements for sustainable and inclusive growt...

Manga adaptation of the third Sherlock BBC episode - printed in English in the US for the first time A mystery enemy is causing utter chaos for Hol...

Sequel to the New York Times bestseller Amari and the Night Brothers! Artemis Fowl meets Men in Black in this magical second book in the New York T...

This is a revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers shows that it was the integrat...

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

'Difficult to put down ... irresistible' Daily Telegraph

Drawing on decolonial perspectives on peace, statehood and development, this illuminating book examines post-liberal statebuilding in Central Asia....

Negative views of the United States abound, but we know too little about how such views affect politics. Drawing on careful research on post-Soviet...

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In the world of DIE, the players are now real players. Countries are their pieces and the board threatens to run red with blood. Who is the Queen a...

Reducere. An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual--though, as she maintained, a virgin--Elizabe...

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At the close of the nineteenth century, near the end of the Qing empire, Confucian revivalists from central China gained control of the Muslim-majo...

Reducere. Robert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 after a long civil war in Rhodesia. The white minority government had become an international outca...

Reducere. As the father of the nuclear powered Navy, Adm. Hyman G. Rickover was a pivotal figure in twentieth-century American history. While many books have...