Pdf: The Great Succession Crisis

John Grainger's detailed study examines a period of intrigue and conspiracy, studies how, why and by whom Domitian was killed and investigates the effects ...

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'Happily the new, four-volume book provides an opportunity to scan the past two centuries for indications of the shape of foreign policy in the post-Cold W ...

Bringing together scholars from a wide array of disciplines - including anthropology, economics, history, sociology, and political science - this volume ad ...

Examines various aspects of Chinese leadership succession from an historical perspective since the Revolution of 1911. Provides detailed profiles of the mo ...

This book is the first major post-Marxist reassessment of the Time of Troubles. ...

The poetry of the Ming dynasty has been relatively neglected in scholarship of the past century, and the 'Archaist' poets of the middle Ming especially so. ...

Presents a survey of the empires of Egypt, Rome, Babylonia, Persia, India, and China between 1600 B.C and 500 A.D. ...

Pietrykowski analyses the Macedonian art of war from its development under Philip II, perfection under Alexander the Great, and further adaptation under th ...

Foundations of Modern Britain has established itself as perhaps the standard modern student history of Britain. Only the General Editor's own eagerly-await ...

An assessment of the question of Soviet succession in Khrushchev's 68th year, the fourth year of his rule. The study indicates that a succession crisis is ...

Part of the Reacting to the Past series, Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor brings to life the suppleness and power of Confucian t ...

International scholars and sinologists discuss culture, economic growth, social change, political processes, and foreign influences in China since the earl ...

Written by a team of experts on the contemporary global capitalist political economy, this ground-breaking volume provides critical analyses of the causes ...

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Today, organizations have achieved an overall failure rate above 80 percent with Lean, Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, and continuous improvement in general. Th ...

This is an in-depth account of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, a uniquely cosmopolitan institution established in the wake of China's defeat ...

System and Succession provides a comparative analysis of the social composition of national political leadership in the United States, Russia, Germany, and ...

Since glasnost began, Russia's most eminent historians have taken advantage of new archival access and the end of censorship and conformity to reassess and ...

In this well-crafted 2006 study of the relationships between the state and its borderlands, Leo Shin traces the roots of China's modern ethnic configuratio ...

In this authoritative book John Grainger explores the foundations of Alexander's empire and why it did not survive after his untimely death in 323 BC. ...

This is the first truly definitive history of the First World War, the war that has done most to shape the twentieth century. The first generation of its h ...

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By tracing the long and turbulent history of the Zulus from their arrival in South Africa and the establishment of Zululand, The Zulus at War is an importa ...

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Traces the life and accomplishments of the ninth-century British king ...

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A truly groundbreaking book, presenting a portrait of Alfonso X, monarch and medieval intellectual "par excellence," and the extraordinary cultural history ...

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