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paperbackEngels224 blz.9780295752167
1e druk
13-2-2024
Stories of migration, displacement, democratization, and transformationFrom a cradle of Austronesian expansion to the dynamic economic powerhouse and successful democracy it is today, Taiwan is layered in colonial histories. Meer
paperbackEngels400 blz.9780300109474
1e druk
5-1-2007
paperbackEngels344 blz.9780300227512
2e druk
3-2-2017
This new edition of Frank Ledwidge's eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of military failure. Meer
paperbackEngels288 blz.9780231201711
9-11-2021
gebondenEngels256 blz.9780300270914
28-5-2024
Throughout history, the Indian Ocean has been an essential space for trade, commerce, and culture. Every European power has sought to dominate it. Meer
paperbackEngels248 blz.9780226824017
17-10-2022
As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. Meer
paperbackEngels496 blz.9780399588822
1e druk
21-3-2017
When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing “a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as “a history of emotions—a history of the soul. Meer
paperbackEngels592 blz.9780198800200
26-7-2018
The history of eastern European is dominated by the story of the rise of the Russian empire, yet Russia only emerged as a major power after 1700. For 300 years the greatest power in Eastern Europe was the union between the kingdom of Poland and the grand duchy of Lithuania, one of the longest-lasting political unions in European history. Meer
paperbackEngels336 blz.9780231170635
18-5-2018
e-bookEngels990 blz.9780191652622
28-3-2013
At a time when diplomatic practices and the demands imposed on diplomats are changing quite radically, and many foreign ministries feel they are being left behind, there is a need to understand the various forces that are affecting the profession. Meer
gebondenEngels512 blz.9780198857297
8-7-2020
Thanks to its half-century under Communism, as well as its little-known language, Albania has suffered from neglect and a sense of isolation. Yet, as this study helps to show, the Albanian lands have a long history of interaction with others. Meer
paperbackEngels1056 blz.9780199765539
26-5-2011
A finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this prize-winning and critically acclaimed history uses foreign relations as the lens through which to tell the story of America's dramatic rise from thirteen disparate colonies huddled along the Atlantic coast to the world's greatest superpower. Meer
paperbackEngels1152 blz.9780141981253
1e druk
26-9-2024
Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. Meer
paperbackEngels448 blz.9780007556212
20-7-2015
Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable nation. Meer
paperbackEngels9780008445584
31-3-2022
Picked as a 'Book to Look Out For in 2022' in the Irish Times and the Irish Independent'Compassionate, brave, enraging, beautifully written and incredibly well researched. Meer