Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: best antony

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  • INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND
    ANTONY BEST / JUSSI M. HANHIMÄKI / JOSEPH A. MAIOLO / KIRSTEN E. SCHULZE
    Now in its fourth edition, this highly successful global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward. Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors have produced an authoritative yet accessible and seamless account of the history of international relations in the last century, co...

    $1,100.00

  • BRITISH ENGAGEMENT WITH JAPAN, 1854–1922
    ANTONY BEST
    This book by a leading authority on Anglo-Japanese relations reconsiders the circumstances which led to the unlikely alliance of 1902 to 1922 between Britain, the leading world power of the day and Japan, an Asian, non-European nation which had only recently emerged from self-imposed isolation. Based on extensive original research the book goes beyond existing accounts which co...

    $1,200.00

  • BRITAIN'S RETREAT FROM EMPIRE IN EAST ASIA, 1905-1980
    ANTONY BEST
    The decline of British power in Asia, from a high point in 1905, when Britain’s ally Japan vanquished the Russian Empire, apparently reducing the perceived threat that Russia posed to its influence in India and China, to the end of the twentieth century, when British power had dwindled to virtually nothing, is one of the most important themes in understanding the modern history...

    $1,260.00

  • ON THE FRINGES OF DIPLOMACY
    ANTONY BEST
    In recent decades the study of British foreign policy and diplomacy has broadened in focus. No longer is it enough for historians to look at the actions of the elite figures - diplomats and foreign secretaries - in isolation; increasingly the role of their advisers and subordinates, and those on the fringes of the diplomatic world, is recognised as having exerted critical influ...

    $1,140.00

  • BRITAIN, JAPAN AND PEARL HARBOUR
    ANTONY BEST
    Recent controversies about Pearl Harbour have highlighted the need for a new assessment of British policy towards Japan during the period leading up to the Pacific War. Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbour provides a thorough and authoritative account of British efforts to avert conflict with Japan, and makes use of the most recently released material from British archives, includi...

    $1,420.00

  • THE INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF EAST ASIA, 1900-1968
    BEST, ANTONY
    This book provides a broad account of the international history of East Asia from 1900 to 1968 - a subject that is essential to any understanding of the modern epoch. Whereas much of the scholarship on this subject has focused purely on the immediate origins and consequences of violent events such as wars and revolutions, this book demonstrates the importance of also considerin...

    $860.00

  • BRITISH ROYAL AND JAPANESE IMPERIAL RELATIONS, 1868-2018
    PETER KORNICKI / ANTONY BEST / HUGH CORTAZZI
    This new scholarly study examines the history of the relations between the British and Japanese monarchies over the past 150 years. Complemented by a significant plate section which includes a number of rarely seen images, as well as a chronology of royal/imperial visits and extensive bibliography, British Royal and Japanese Imperial Relations, 1868-2018, will become a benchmar...

    $1,240.00