Drawing on sources in Japanese, Chinese, and American archives and libraries, this book reassesse...

This book examines the nature and character of naval expeditionary warfare, in particular in peri...

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This book brings together historians, geographers, political scientists, and legal scholars to ex...

During the Soviet period the USSR conducted diplomatic relations with incumbent regimes while sim...

The remote vastness of Mongolia has remained somewhat of a mystery to most Westerners - no less s...

Excerpt from the introduction: 'In the late nineteenth century, the French Jeune École, or 'new s...

Why did the Chinese empire collapse and why did it take so long for a new government to reunite C...

This new collection of scholarly, readable, and up-to-date essays covers the most significant nav...

The railways of Manchuria offer an intriguing vantage point for an international history of north...

The important and previously undocumented event in the history of the Second World War: the negot...

From the foreword: 'Piracy is a basic and fundamental concern for all navies.1 From almost the be...