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The Everlasting Empire
Established in 221 BCE, the Chinese empire lasted for 2,132 years before being replaced by the Republic of China in 1912. During its two millennia, the empire endured internal wars, foreign incursions, alien occupations, and devastating rebellions--yet fundamental institutional, sociopolitical, and cultural features of the empire remained intact.The Everlasting Empiretraces the roots of the Chinese empire's exceptional longevity and unparalleled political durability, and shows how lessons from the imperial past are relevant for China today.
Yuri Pines demonstrates that the empire survived and adjusted to a variety of domestic and external challenges through a peculiar combination of rigid ideological premises and their flexible implementation. The empire's major political actors and neighbors shared its fundamental ideological principles, such as unity under a single monarch--hence, even the empire's strongest domestic and foreign foes adopted the system of imperial rule. Yet details of this rule were constantly negotiated and adjusted. Pines shows how deep tensions between political actors including the emperor, the literati, local elites, and rebellious commoners actually enabled the empire's basic institutional framework to remain critically vital and adaptable to ever-changing sociopolitical circumstances. As contemporary China moves toward a new period of prosperity and power in the twenty-first century, Pines argues that the legacy of the empire may become an increasingly important force in shaping the nation's future trajectory.
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Japan Prepares for Total War
The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy
have often been traced to its concern over acute economic
vulnerability. Historian Michael Barnhart tests this assumption by
examining the events leading up to World War II in the context of
Japan's quest for economic security. Drawing on a wide array of
Japanese and American sources, this is the first English-language
book on the war's origins to be based on research in archives on
both sides of the Pacific.
Barnhart focuses on the critical years from 1938 to 1941 as he
investigates the development of Japan's drive for national economic
self-sufficiency and independence and the way in which this drive
shaped its internal and external policies. He also explores
American economic pressure on Tokyo and assesses its impact on
Japan's foreign policy and domestic economy. He concludes that
Japan's internal political dynamics, especially the bitter rivalry
between its army and navy, played a far greater role in propelling
the nation into war with the United States than did its economic
condition or even pressure from Washington.
Japan Prepares for Total War sheds new light on prewar Japan and
confirms the opinions of those in Washington who advocated economic
pressure against Japan. At a time of growing interest in
U.S.-Japanese economic relations, this book will be stimulating and
provocative reading for scholars and students of international
relations and American and Asian history.
The roots of Japan's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy
have often been traced to its concern over acute economic
vulnerability. Michael A. Barnhart tests this assumption by
examining the events leading up to World War II in the context of
Japan's quest for economic security, drawing on a wide array of
Japanese and American sources.Barnhart focuses on the critical
years from 1938 to 1941 as he investigates the development of
Japan's drive for national economic self-sufficiency and
independence and the way in which this drive shaped its internal
and external policies. He also explores American economic pressure
on Tokyo and assesses its impact on Japan's foreign policy and
domestic economy. He concludes that Japan's internal political
dynamics, especially the bitter rivalry between its army and navy,
played a far greater role in propelling the nation into war with
the United States than did its economic condition or even pressure
from Washington. Japan Prepares for Total War sheds new
light on prewar Japan and confirms the opinions of those in
Washington who advocated economic pressure against Japan.
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Shipwreck at the bottom of the world : the extraordinary true story of Shackleton and the Endurance
Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.
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Shackleton's heroes : the epic story of the men who kept the Endurance expedition alive
\"One hundred years ago, Sir Ernest Shackleton embarked on the legendary Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917), accomplishing one of history's most remarkable feats of endurance, even though his crew failed in their mission to cross Antarctica...Less well known, however, is the incredible but often forgotten tale of the Mount Hope party (also known as the Ross Sea party)--six men who worked in the shadow of Shackleton's great cause.\"
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Space, Drama, and Empire
Spanish poet, playwright, and novelist Félix Lope de Vega (1562-1635) was a key figure of Golden Age Spanish literature, second only in stature to Cervantes, and is considered the founder of Spain's classical theater.
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