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Fiorello La Guardia: Ethnicity, Reform, and Urban Development
Ronald H. Bayor
Wiley, 2017 ISBN: 9781119103530Description:Fiorello La Guardia was an ambitious man who wanted great success for himself—but he also wanted to advocate on behalf of the poor and forgotten...
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History: theory & methods European history Asian history Australasian & Pacific history Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 Social & cultural historyWhy China did not have a Renaissance – and why that matters: An interdisciplinary Dialogue
Thomas Maissen
Barbara Mittler
De Gruyter, 2018 ISBN: 9783110574036Description:Concepts of historical progress or decline and the idea of a cycle of historical movement have existed in many civilizations. In spite of claims that...
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Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860–1960
Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Cornell University Press, 2011 ISBN: 9780801461859Description:Violence and democracy may seem fundamentally incompatible, but the two have often been intimately and inextricably linked. In Ruffians, Yakuza...
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Cauldron of Resistance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam
Jessica M. Chapman
Cornell University Press, 2013 ISBN: 9780801467417Description:In 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem organized an election to depose chief-of-state Bao Dai, after which he proclaimed himself the first president of the newly...
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Cornell University Press, 2014 ISBN: 9780801470677Description: Continue readingPLN Gross price list
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Cornell University Press, 2016 ISBN: 9781501701023Description:
In 2012, Barack Obama became the first U.S. president ever to visit Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. This official state visit marked a new period in...
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Brothers in Arms: Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979
Andrew C. Mertha
Cornell University Press, 2014 ISBN: 9780801470738Description:When the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia in 1975, they inherited a war-ravaged and internationally isolated country. Pol Pot’s government...
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Imperial Japan at Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire's 2,600th Anniversary
Kenneth J. Ruoff
Cornell University Press, 2014 ISBN: 9780801471827Description:In 1940, Japan was into its third year of war with China, and relations with the United States were deteriorating, but it was a heady time for the...
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Cornell University Press, 2017 ISBN: 9781501707841Description:
In Architects of Occupation, Dayna L. Barnes exposes the wartime origins of occupation policy and broader plans for postwar Japan. She considers the...
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Knowledge and the Ends of Empire: Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917
Ian W. Campbell
Cornell University Press, 2017 ISBN: 9781501707902Description:In Knowledge and the Ends of Empire, Ian W. Campbell investigates the connections between knowledge production and policy formation on the Kazak...
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