The massive dimensions of Syria's refugee crisis--and the search for solutions. The civil war in Syria has forced some 10 million people--more than half the country's population--from their homes and communities, creating one of the largest human displacements since the end of W…
Chronicles the rise of the Taliban from their first appearance in 1994, examines their place in the context of Afghanistan's political instability, and discusses the significance of their brand of Islamic fundamentalism.
The end of the Sino-Japanese War in 1945 brought not peace but renewed confrontation between Mao Zedong's Chinese Communist Party and Chiang Kaishek's Guomindang. The ensuing Civil War, at the threshold of the Cold War, held enormous significance for international strategic alli…
The end of the Sino-Japanese War in 1945 brought not peace but renewed confrontation between Mao Zedong's Chinese Communist Party and Chiang Kaishek's Guomindang. The ensuing Civil War, at the threshold of the Cold War, held enormous significance for international strategic alli…
The ambition of this study is shaped by two somewhat contradictory impulses. The first is to use the novel of war in Africa as a case study to say something broader and bigger about the war novel as a genre across literary traditions and reaching backwards and forwards in histor…
"... Relying on Soviet, Western, and NGO archives, interviews with Soviet advisers and NGO workers, and Afghan sources, [the author] forges a vivid account of the impact of development on a country on the front lines of the Cold War. Nunan argues that Afghanistan functioned as a…
"Charting Mon history from the earliest times to the present Ashley South describes the origins of Burma's ethnic politics in the pre-colonial era, and developments during the British (and Japanese) colonial periods. Following independence in 1948 Burma was plunged into a civil …
This reader is designed primarily for classroom use. It presents contrasting points of view on topics dealing with the Civil War and Reconstruction in the hope that they will stimulate discussion among students and encourage them to read further ... [For] college students.-Pref.
This reader is designed primarily for classroom use. It presents contrasting points of view on topics dealing with the Civil War and Reconstruction in the hope that they will stimulate discussion among students and encourage them to read further ... [For] college students.-Pref.…
This reader is designed primarily for classroom use. It presents contrasting points of view on topics dealing with the Civil War and Reconstruction in the hope that they will stimulate discussion among students and encourage them to read further ... [For] college students.-Pref.…
Deadly Embrace explains how the Francoist forces were unable to defeat Moroccan guerillas and turned to chemical weapons to break the impasse. Later the Francoists used Moroccan troops to destroy the Second Republic during the Spanish Civil War. Combining military, political, c…
The Khmer Rouge was in power for less than five years and more than half of those years were spent fighting against the Vietnamese. The first attack took the Vietnamese by surprise and the Khmer Rouge killed at least hundreds of Vietnamese villagers during their raid. Vietnam so…
"The United States is on the brink of intervention in Syria, but the effect of any eventual American action is impossible to predict. The Syrian conflict has killed more than 100,000 people and displaced millions, yet most observers warn that the worst is still to come. And the …
