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"As East Asia regains its historical position as a world centre, information on the history of regional relations becomes ever more critical. Astonishingly, Northeast Asia enjoyed five centuries of international peace from 1400 to 1894, broken only by one major international war…
Fifty years ago, the economic historian Harold Innis pointed out that the geographical limits of empires were determined by communications and that advances in the technologies of transport and communications have enabled empires to grow. The power of communications was demonstr…
In one century (1757-1857), the English East India Company annexed over 60 per cent of the Indian sub-continent, containing over 75 per cent of its people. These annexations (some one million square miles) were heatedly debated at the time by Indian and British participants, and…
This volume offers a collection of seventeen of the more important papers written by the late Peter Derow during the course of his career. With a detailed introduction by the editors, it is essential reading for anyone interested in Roman imperialism or Polybius, and Rome's rise…
