Roberts, Priscilla ; Westad, Odd Arne

It explains how Chinese attitudes have been determined by both receptiveness and resistance to outside influence and presents the preoccupations that

For over forty years the demands of the Cold War shaped the life of almost all of us. Europe was seemingly split in two indefinitely. This is a book o

This book explores the forces that impelled China, the world’s largest socialist state, to make massive changes in its domestic and international stan

In het koninkrijk Ilya zijn alleen mensen met uitzonderlijke gaven welkom ... De Elites kregen deze speciale krachten nadat ze de pest hadden overl

A Powerless story. From the international bestselling author of Powerless, comes a sizzling and heart-racing new story set in the Kingdom of Ilya.

Written for a wide audience of earth scientists and climatologists, The Holocene: An Environmental History provides undergraduates with a much-neede

This volume takes stock of where new materials from China, the former Soviet Union and Europe have taken us in our understanding of what the Cold War

This history of the Chinese Civil War attempts to answer two questions: Why was the war fought? And What were the immediate and lasting results of the

From an award-winning historian, a concise overview of the deep and longstanding ties between China and the Koreas, providing an essential foundation

“The relationship between China and Korea is one of the most important, and least understood, in Asia. With the wisdom and clarity we have come to exp

The Chinese Civil War was one of the key conflicts of the twentieth century. The Communist victory determined Chinese history for several generations,

This volume takes stock of where new materials from China, the former Soviet Union and Europe have taken us in our understanding of what the Cold War

The completely updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the WorldFor genera

A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while str

Brian Russell Roberts dispels continental-centric US national mythologies to advance an alternative image of the United States as an archipelagic nati

Truly an essential reference for today's world, this detailed introduction to the origins, events, and impact of the adversarial relationship between

A new, ambitious history of the world, telling the remarkable story of the world's tropical forests from the arrival of the first plants millions of y

Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya . . . Red Queen meets The Hunger Games in this epic and sizzling fantasy romance not to be missed

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