Lanxin Xiang: 4 books
The Origins of the Boxer War
A Multinational Study
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
This is the first book to provide a panoramic view of the origins of the Boxer War. Comprehensively examining this historical conundrum of the 20th century from a detached perspective, the book is based on ten years of exhaustive research of both unpublished and published materials from all nine countries...
by Dana H. Allin, Timo Behr, David P. Calleo
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The essays in this volume examine selected national, regional European, and international policies of Charles de Gaulle, giving consideration to their significance in his own time, and today. Not everything de Gaulle did withstands the test of time. Nor, obviously, was everything beyond criticism...
Is the West in Decline?
Historical, Military, and Economic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Is the West in Decline? is a collection of ten essays by prominent scholars of international relations and current history, many of them associated with the European Studies program of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. The essays explore the question of decline from several...
Recasting the Imperial Far East: Britain and America in China, 1945-50
Britain and America in China, 1945-50
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Attempts to shed new light on the Anglo-American rivalry in China in the period between the defeat of Japan and the triumph of the Chinese Communists. This study contends that the USSR was not a major factor in the dispute.