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Imperial Decline
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: Stephen Blank
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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The essays in Imperial Decline describe the major changes that have occurred in Russia's relations with China, Japan, and South Korea under Boris Yeltsin's pres
Why America Failed
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Morris Berman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-13 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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Why America Failed shows how, from its birth as a nation of "hustlers" to its collapse as an empire, the tools of the country's expansion proved to be the instr
Imperial Ends
Language: en
Pages: 188
Authors: Alexander J. Motyl
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-08-01 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Despite their historical importance, empires have received scant attention from social scientists. Now, Alexander J. Motyl examines the structure, dynamics, and
Rethinking the Decline of China's Qing Dynasty
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Daniel McMahon
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-21 - Publisher: Routledge

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The many instances of regional insurgency and unrest that erupted on China’s borderlands at the turn of the nineteenth century are often regarded by scholars
The Decline of Imperial Russia
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Hugh Seton-Watson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-24 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book, originally published in 1952, describes and explains the stage of the decline of the Russian Empire between the Crimean and First World Wars. The boo