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  • China’s Naval Operations in the South China Sea
    Bruce Elleman
    Here is a history of the South China Sea (SCS) conflict and the stakes for each of the bordering states and China’s (PRC) interaction with them. it examines the US’s role in the region. It examines the PRC’s perception of the SCS, and its strategy to claim the islands and waters, in the context of the strategies of other stake-holding nations. ...
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    85,07 €

  • The ABCs of Cold War History
    Bruce A. Elleman
    A short, but highly relevant, history of the Cold War, 1919-1994, and its significance today. The 75-year Cold War pitted the Anglo-American world against the Soviet Bloc, with China, the ultimate prize. ...
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    28,55 €

  • The United States Navy’s Pivot to Asia
    Bruce A. Elleman
    This book examines the origins of the U.S. Navy’s 2007 Maritime Strategy, the formation of the U.S. government’s 'Pivot to Asia' strategy, and the most recent revisions to this strategy that focus more specifically on China. The book also explores the internal and external repercussions on the U.S. Navy of the Pivot to Asia. ...
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    77,26 €

  • Principles of Maritime Power
    Bruce A. Elleman
    This concise but exhaustive treatment of sea powers examines the strengths and weaknesses of maritime power, including chapters on mutiny, blockades, coalitions, expeditionary warfare, piracy, commerce raiding, and soft power operations. Throughout, Elleman analyzes the competition between land power and sea power strategies. ...
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    51,31 €

  • The Impact of Coincidence in Modern American, British, and Asian History
    Bruce A. Elleman
    In 21 case studies, this short book examines the distinctive coincidental history of America, Britain, and various Asian countries during the twentieth century. ...
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    36,02 €

  • Taiwan Straits Standoff
    Bruce A Elleman / Bruce A. Elleman
    Following the Nationalist defeat on the mainland in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and his followers retreated to Taiwan, forming the Republic of China (ROC). Tensions with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) focused on control over a number of offshore islands, especially Quemoy (Jinmen) and Matsu (Mazu). Twice in the 1950s tensions peaked, during the first (1954-55) and second (1958)...
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    57,71 €

  • A History of the Modern Chinese Navy, 1840-2020
    Bruce A. Elleman
    This book provides a comprehensive history of the modern Chinese navy from 1840 to the present. Beginning with a survey of naval developments in earlier imperial times, the book goes on to show how China has since the mid-nineteenth century four times built or rebuilt its navy. ...
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    82,42 €

  • International Rivalry and Secret Diplomacy in East Asia, 1896-1950
    Bruce Elleman
    Asia was a major focus of struggle between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The struggle for predominance in East Asia predated the Cold War, this book gives examples of the USA and Russia/the Soviet Union working to increase control in the region. The book focuses on secret treaties signed between the late 1890s and 1945. ...
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    83,88 €

  • The Making of the Modern Chinese Navy
    Bruce A Elleman / Bruce A. Elleman
    ’The Making of the Modern Chinese Navy’ includes 14 historical case studies that help to illuminate a number of special characteristics of the modern-day Chinese navy. ...
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    82,40 €

  • Seaborne Perils
    Bruce A Elleman / Bruce A. Elleman / Bruce AElleman
    This book integrates a number of multinational, multiregional, and historical cases of piracy, maritime crime, and seaborne terrorism. ...
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    50,13 €

  • International Competition in China, 1899-1991
    Bruce A. Elleman
    China’s recent economic reforms have opened its economy to the world. This policy, however, is not new: in the late nineteenth century, the United States put forward the Open Door Policy as a counter to European exclusive ’spheres of influence’ in China. This book, based on extensive original archival research, examines and re-evaluates China’s Open Door Policy. It considers th...
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    90,96 €

  • Beijing’s Power and China’s Borders
    Bruce Elleman
    This book brings together historians, geographers, political scientists, and legal scholars to examine each of China’s twenty land or sea borders. Each chapter details the history and status of boundary setting and disputes and the ongoing management of transnational interactions--trade, resource exploitation, fishing rights, and population movements. Country coverage includes ...
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    76,63 €

  • Moscow and the Emergence of Communist Power in China, 1925-30
    Bruce Elleman
    This book examines the emergence of Communist power in China during the interwar period, focusing especially on the 1927 Nanchang Uprising. It explains why the Communists created the myth that the Nanchang Uprising was a success, and later dated the origins of the People’s Liberation Army to this event. ...
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    104,32 €

  • Manchurian Railways and the Opening of China
    Bruce Elleman / Stephen Kotkin
    The railways of Manchuria offer an intriguing vantage point for an international history of northeast Asia. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to explore this fascinating history. ...
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    94,86 €

  • Japanese-American Civilian Prisoner Exchanges and Detention Camps, 1941-45
    Bruce Elleman
    The important and previously undocumented event in the history of the Second World War: the negotiation of ’prisoner’ exchanges between the United States and Japan during 1941 to 1943, is examined here by Bruce Elleman.Approximately 7000 American citizens had been arrested by the Japanese authorities while visiting Japan as tourists, conducting business, teaching English or car...
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    28,88 €

  • Wilson and China
    Bruce Elleman
    Using sources in Japanese, Chinese and American archives, this text reassesses Woodrow Wilson’s agenda at the Paris Peace Conference. It argues Wilson did not 'betray' China, but negotiated a compromise with the Japanese to ensure that China’s sovereignty would be respected in Shandong Province. ...
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    101,65 €

  • Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989
    Bruce A. Elleman
    A survey of Chinese warfare, both internal and international, from the opium wars of the 1840s through to the end of Vietnam. ...
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    94,29 €

  • Mongolia in the Twentieth Century
    Bruce Allen Elleman / Stephen Kotkin
    The remote vastness of Mongolia has remained somewhat of a mystery to most Westerners - no less so in the 20th century. This volume examines Mongol history over the past century, embracing not only Mongolia proper but also Mongol communities in Russia and China. ...
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    103,96 €

  • Diplomacy and Deception
    Bruce Elleman
    A study of secret agreements signed by Moscow and the Peking Government in 1924 and confirmed by a Soviet-Japanese convention in 1925 which allowed the Bolsheviks to reclaim tsarist concessions in China including Outer Mongolia, the Chinese Eastern Railway, the Boxer Indemnity and the right of extraterritoriality. ...
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    76,86 €