Part of the "Postwar World" series which considers the way in which the world has been shaped in the years since World War II. This text aims to provide a fresh synthesis of the main political, strategic and economic developments in Europe and the USA during the first ten years …
Publisher description: A history of North Korea from 1945 to 1960. To understand how North Korea has survived as the world₂s last Stalinist regime despite international isolation--and at enormous human costs to its people--one must look at how its political system was created. T…
Publisher description: A history of North Korea from 1945 to 1960. To understand how North Korea has survived as the world₂s last Stalinist regime despite international isolation--and at enormous human costs to its people--one must look at how its political system was created. T…
"Accidental State explores the historical formation in the late 1940s and early 1950s of a de facto state on Taiwan separate from the de facto state ruling the Chinese mainland. The peculiar status of the Republic of China on Taiwan as an independent state but not quite a nation…
Review text: "Die Arbeit zeugt von großer Sorgfalt wie von starkem Engagement. Sie ist eine wertvolle Bereicherung sprachgeschichtlicher Erkenntnisse aus der Frühe der Nachkriegszeit."Erich AStraßner in: Germanistik 1-2/2006
