epub |eng | 2013-01-18 | Author:jansen, marius b [jansen, marius b]

5. The Diplomacy of Imperialism In the years after the Treaty of Shimonoseki imperialist pressures increased in East Asia. Expansion driven by industrialization seemed to be the destiny of modern ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Giancarlo Genta

16 The Fourteenth Fleet The round trip to Isqaht, Ytl and Gorkh’ar took more than a month, and Tom got back to the Gatlaat system on the 35th day. The ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 1998-11-05 | Author:John Reader

CHAPTER 38 Africa Transformed The significance of the slave trade for Africa lay less in the number of people lost than in the changed social patterns and reproductive capabilities of ...

epub |eng | 2011-08-19 | Author:Castells, Manuel;

It does not follow that societies at large are upgraded in their skills, education, or income status, nor in their stratification system. The impact of a somewhat upgraded employment structure ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-04 | Author:Wolin, Richard, Wolin, Richard

Perils of Political Guardianship While the dynamism and scope of Jonas’s metaphysical vision are undeniably powerful, that vision, like all claims to knowledge, is hardly above criticism. The strategy of ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-12 | Author:Ben Shepherd [Shepherd, Ben]

IN THE BALKANS German Armies and Partisan Warfare BEN SHEPHERD Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts • London, England 2012 Copyright © 2012 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2003-06-25 | Author:Martin Redfern [Redfern, Martin]

Drilling the seas From 1968 the ocean floor was sampled directly and scientifically by the US-led Deep Sea Drilling Program using a drilling vessel named the Glomar Challenger. This was ...

epub |eng | 2009-06-21 | Author:Michael Watts [Watts, Michael]

Lamarck(ian)ism A theory of evolutionary change originating with the French naturalist Jean Baptiste de Lamarck (1744 1829). A non Darwinian doctrine of organic progres sion, early Lamarckism differed significantly from ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2002-09-30 | Author:Marius B. Jansen [Jansen, Marius B.]

446 The Making of Modern Japan 6. The Meiji Empire, 1910. Japan secured possession of the Kurils in 1875, asserted full control over Ryukyu in 1879, acquired Taiwan after the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Gupta, Bina

Viśeṣa (Particularity) Things not only are experienced as being alike, they are also perceived as being different, and even when they share the same qualities they are distinct, e.g., though ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Taylor, Jay [Taylor, Jay]

9 The Great Failure With his recent victory over Lin Biao still untarnished, Du Yuming was suffering another bout of bad health, and in early July after Li Zongren declined ...

mobi |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Ewan W. Anderson; Liam D. Anderson

* * * UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Location: A promontory separating the Gulf from the Gulf of Oman. (Map 53) Area: 83,600 km² % Middle East: 0.5 Comparison with Bahrain: ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-28 | Author:Rick Steves

Like great cities in emerging economies around the world, Istanbul bustles with hope for a bright future. And yet, this ancient city is striding into the future. During my visit, ...

azw3 |eng | 2005-12-15 | Author:Donald S. Lopez Jr.

Having thus dismissed the opinion of the majority and the authority of the enlightened as standards of truth, GC finally introduces the topic of pramana, valid knowledge. His hypothetical interlocutor ...

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