With learning, dispassion and clarity, this book offers comparisons and an original account of American power. It explores the exercise of US power in the 19th and 20th centuries, analysing its economic and strategic sources and the nation's relationship to predecessors and riva…
With learning, dispassion and clarity, this book offers comparisons and an original account of American power. It explores the exercise of US power in the 19th and 20th centuries, analysing its economic and strategic sources and the nation's relationship to predecessors and riva…
Contemporary America, with its unparalleled armaments and ambition, seems to many commentators a new empire. Others angrily reject the designation. What stakes would being an empire have for our identity at home and our role abroad? A preeminent American historian addresses thes…
This book challenges the conventional view of Japanese society as monocultural and homogenous. Unique for its historical breadth and interdisciplinary orientation, Multicultural Japan ranges from prehistory to the present, arguing that cultural diversity has always existed in Ja…
1. Chapter 1: Introduction -- 2. Chapter 2: Alliances, NATO, and the Post-Cold War Era -- 3. Chapter 3: The 1999 Kosovo Intervention -- 4. Chapter 4: September 11, 2001 and the War in Afghanistan -- 5. Chapter 5: The 2003 Iraq War -- 6. Chapter 6: The 2011 Libyan Intervention --…
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This volume brings to English-language readers the results of an important long-term project of historians from China and Japan addressing contentious issues in their shared modern histories. Originally published simultaneously in Chinese and Japanese in 2006, the thirteen essay…
This volume brings to English-language readers the results of an important long-term project of historians from China and Japan addressing contentious issues in their shared modern histories. Originally published simultaneously in Chinese and Japanese in 2006, the thirteen essay…
"Docu-Fictions of War examines contemporary cinematic and literary texts that, contrary to their designation, are not pure fiction but rather 'docu-fictions'--works of imagination that document their subjects while disclosing the social, political, and historical link between wa…
"Docu-Fictions of War examines contemporary cinematic and literary texts that, contrary to their designation, are not pure fiction but rather 'docu-fictions'--works of imagination that document their subjects while disclosing the social, political, and historical link between wa…
An incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy. For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports …
"From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy." / Verlagsinformation
