THOMAS A. BRESLIN is Vice President for Research and Associate Professor of International Relations at Florida International University. Professor Breslin has published three earlier books and numerous articles in scholarly journals.

• Preface The Five Baits Ten Thousand Persian Archers Roman Virgins and Vandals The Glittering Diplomacy of Byzantium The Byzantine Doge and the Parsimonious Prince Lording It Over the Britons: England's Anglo-Norman Empire The British Empire: Doomed in the Fleshpots of Paris Whiskey versus Rum: The Roots of America's Bicultural Foreign Policy Sweet and Sour: China Deals with the Modern West Bibliography Index

THOMAS A. BRESLIN is Vice President for Research and Associate Professor of International Relations at Florida International University. Professor Breslin has published three earlier books and numerous articles in scholarly journals.

• Preface The Five Baits Ten Thousand Persian Archers Roman Virgins and Vandals The Glittering Diplomacy of Byzantium The Byzantine Doge and the Parsimonious Prince Lording It Over the Britons: England's Anglo-Norman Empire The British Empire: Doomed in the Fleshpots of Paris Whiskey versus Rum: The Roots of America's Bicultural Foreign Policy Sweet and Sour: China Deals with the Modern West Bibliography Index