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Nation, stat och imperium : tillhörighet i en globaliserad värld
Av Philip Bobbitt, Gillian Clark m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
255 kr
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Med det kalla krigets slut och globaliseringens segertåg trodde många att nationalism hörde till historien. Men det visade sig vara tvärtom. Idag ser vi hur nationalismen sprids över hela världen. Samtidigt växer sig populistiska och anti-demokratiska rörelser starka. Att höra hemma någonstans …
Samhälle i kris : vår förmåga till anpassning och omorientering
Av Clive Aslet, Philip Bobbitt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
239 kr
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Att lära sig hantera en kris är centralt i människans tillvaro. Krig, revolutioner och pandemier är återkommande företeelser i mänsklighetens historia. I denna antologi undersöker tjugofem världsledande forskare hur olika samhällen reagerar i sådana situationer. De belyser människans unika förmåga …
History of Modern France
From the Revolution to the War with Terror
Häftad, 2016
124 kr
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With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Bestselling historian and political commentator Jonathan Fenby provides an expert and riveting journey through this period as he recounts and analyses the …
Om historien : att lära av det förflutna
Av Erica Benner, John Bew m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
224 kr
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Historien, mänsklighetens samlade erfarenheter, lär oss om nuet och framtiden. Hur är det möjligt att titta på händelser i det förflutna och med hjälp av dem lösa samtidens politiska eller ekonomiska förhållanden och konflikter? Essäerna i denna antologi härrör från Engelsbergsseminariet 2019 där …
Samhälle i kris
Av Clive Aslet, Philip Bobbitt m. fl.
E-bok, 2022
139 kr
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Att lära sig hantera en kris är centralt i människans tillvaro. Krig, revolutioner och pandemier är återkommande företeelser i mänsklighetens historia. I denna antologi undersöker tjugofem världsledande forskare hur olika samhällen reagerar i sådana situationer. De belyser människans unika förmåga …
Society in crisis : our capacity for adaptation and reorientation
Av Clive Aslet, Philip Bobbitt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
239 kr
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Wars, revolutions and pandemics are recurring phenomena in human history. In this anthology twenty-five world-leading scholars describe and analyse how different societies handle these situations, and highlight humanity s unprecedented capacity for adaption and reorientation. A crisis entails …
Nation, state and empire
Av Robin Lane Fox, Gillian Clark m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
139 kr
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With the end of the Cold War and the triumph of globalisation, many believed that nationalism now was a thing of the past: instead the opposite is true. Today, we can see nationalism spreading across the world, as populistic and anti-democratic movements grow stronger.Belonging somewhere seems to …
Nation, stat och imperium
Av Robin Lane Fox, Gillian Clark m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
139 kr
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Med det kalla krigets slut och globaliseringens segertåg trodde många att nationalism hörde till historien. Men det visade sig vara tvärtom. Idag ser vi hur nationalismen sprids över hela världen. Samtidigt växer sig populistiska och anti-demokratiska rörelser starka. Att höra hemma någonstans …
Om historien
Av Janne Haaland Matláry, Maurizio Viroli m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
139 kr
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Historien, mänsklighetens samlade erfarenheter, lär oss om nuet och framtiden. Hur är det möjligt att titta på händelser i det förflutna och med hjälp av dem lösa samtidens politiska eller ekonomiska förhållanden och konflikter?Essäerna i denna antologi härrör från Engelsbergsseminariet 2019 där …
Past and present : to learn from history
To Learn from History
Av Brendan Simms, Peter Ricketts m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
224 kr
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History, the collective experience of Mankind, teaches us about the present and the future. How do we look at events of the past? Do they help to solve our present political or economical conditions and conflicts? The essays in this anthology derive from the Engelsberg Seminar in 2019 that dealt …
Penguin History of Modern China
The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 - 2009
E-bok, 2008
147 kr
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'China's reemergence as a global economic powerhouse has compressed into a single generation an industrial and urban revolution on a scale the world has never seen. Its transformation looks to many foreigners, and to millions of newly prosperous Chinese, like a near-miraculous escape from the …
Penguin History of Modern China
The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, Third Edition
Häftad, 2019
225 kr
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In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years China has endured as victim of oppression, war and famine. This makes its current position as arguably …
Siege of Tsingtao
The only battle of the First World War to be fought in East Asia: how it came about and why its aftermath is still relevant today: Penguin Specials
E-bok, 2014
95 kr
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In 1914, Europe was not the only continent coming to terms with a new form of conflict. Through a mix of complex alliances and global ambition, the war had spread to northern China, where the German-held port of Tsingtao became a key battleground. To strike a blow at Kaiser Wilhelm''s naval forces, …
Great Wonders of China
Häftad, 2024
136 kr
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The magnificent wonders of China, ancient and modern, revealed by an international team of leading scholars from Asia and the West. China is the oldest continuous civilization on earth and holds a unique global place in the 21st century, this book’s uniquely wide focus shows what makes it such a …
Chiang Kai Shek
China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost
Häftad, 2005
262 kr
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With a narrative as briskly paced and vividly detailed as an international thriller, this definitive biography of Chiang Kai-shek masterfully maps the tumultuous political career of Nationalist China's generalissimo as it reevaluates his brave but unfulfilled life. Chiang Kai-shek was one of the …
General
Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved
E-bok, 2010
104 kr
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No leader of modern times was more unique and more uniquely national than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first President of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw himself ''carrying France on my shoulders''. When he first emerged on to the world stage in 1940, his insistence that he spoke for …
Tiger Head, Snake Tails
China today, how it got there and why it has to change
E-bok, 2013
104 kr
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This is a comprehensively updated account of where China stands today, covering the generational change in the leadership completed in March 2013, the Bo Xilai scandal and the changing course of the world''s second largest economy and the last major state ruled by a Communist Party. Named as a book …
History of Modern France
From the Revolution to the War on Terror
E-bok, 2015
104 kr
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With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Bestselling historian and political commentator Jonathan Fenby provides an expert and riveting journey through this period as he recounts and analyses the …
Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost
E-bok, 2015
102 kr
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Chiang Kai-shek was the man who lost China to the Communists. As leader of the nationalist movement, the Kuomintang, Chiang established himself as head of the government in Nanking in 1928. Yet although he laid claim to power throughout the 1930s and was the only Chinese figure of sufficient …
Sinking of the Lancastria
Britain''s Greatest Maritime Disaster and Churchill''s Cover-Up
E-bok, 2015
104 kr
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A fortnight after the evacuation at Dunkirk some 150,000 British troops were still stuck in France. As the German advance thundered west these Allied soldiers and airmen were faced with a mad dash to the coast in the hope that a troop-ship awaited them there. One such vessel was the ''Lancastria'', …
Alliance
The Inside Story of How Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill Won One War and Began Another
E-bok, 2015
104 kr
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The history of the Second World War is usually told through its decisive battles and campaigns. But behind the front lines, behind even the command centres of Allied generals and military planners, a different level of strategic thinking was going on. Throughout the war the ''Big Three'' -- …
Crucible
Thirteen Months that Forged Our World
E-bok, 2018
104 kr
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The Times Book of the Year BBC History Magazine Book of the Year Daily Telegraph Book of the Year BOOK OF THE WEEK - The Times ‘The strength of this book lies in the cold realities it delivers. “The thirteen months of 1947-48,” writes Fenby, “provide trenchant examples of how realpolitik can serve …
Will China Dominate the 21st Century?
Inbunden, 2017
568 kr
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China's spectacular growth and expanding global role have led to visions of the 21st century being dominated by the last major state on earth ruled by a Communist Party. In this new edition of his widely acclaimed book, renowned China expert Jonathan Fenby shows why such assumptions are wrong. He …
Will China Dominate the 21st Century?
Häftad, 2017
217 kr
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China's spectacular growth and expanding global role have led to visions of the 21st century being dominated by the last major state on earth ruled by a Communist Party. In this new edition of his widely acclaimed book, renowned China expert Jonathan Fenby shows why such assumptions are wrong. He …
Will China Dominate the 21st Century?
E-bok, 2017
238 kr
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China''s spectacular growth and expanding global role have led to visions of the 21st century being dominated by the last major state on earth ruled by a Communist Party. In this new edition of his widely acclaimed book, renowned China expert Jonathan Fenby shows why such assumptions are wrong. He …
France on the Brink
A Great Civilization in the New Century
E-bok, 2014
182 kr
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This completely revised and fully updated edition of the book Bill Bryson called “superb” presents a sharply insightful, authoritative portrait of France today as it struggles to live up to its vision of itself amid storm clouds that won’t go away. France on the Brink was chosen as a New York Times …
Dragon Throne
China's Emperors from the Qin to the Manchu
Häftad, 2015
151 kr
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They were the most powerful rulers on earth. The mighty Qin Shi Huangdu (r. 221-210 BC), who began the construction of the Great Wall. The long-lived Han emperor Wudi (r. 141-87 BC), who developed China as a centralized Confucian state. The soldier-scholar Yongle (r. 1402-24 AD), who raised the …
Dragon Throne
China''s Emperors from the Qin to the Manchu
E-bok, 2015
45 kr
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They were the most powerful rulers on earth. The mighty Qin Shi Huangdu (r. 221-210 BC), who began the construction of the Great Wall. The long-lived Han emperor Wudi (r. 141-87 BC), who developed China as a centralized Confucian state. The soldier-scholar Yongle (r. 1402-24 AD), who raised the …
