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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david macfadyen”
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  • Eric Drummond and his Legacies

    The League of Nations and the Beginnings of Global Governance

    by David Macfadyen, Michael D. V. Davies, Marilyn Norah Carr, John Burley ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book shows how the first institution of global governance was conceived and operated. It provides a new assessment of its architect, Eric Drummond, the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, appointed a century ago. The authors conclude that he stands in the front rank of the 12 men who have occupied the post of Secretary-General of the League or its successor, the UN. Part 1 ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Russian Culture in Uzbekistan

    One Language in the Middle of Nowhere

    by David MacFadyen ...
    Series series Central Asian Studies
    Recent political changes in Central Asia, where the United States is replacing Russia as the dominant power, are having a profound effect on Russian speakers in the region. These people, formerly perceived as progressive and engaging with Europe, are now confronted by the erasure of their literary, musical, cinematic and journalistic culture, as local ethnic and American cultures become much ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Russian Television Today

    Primetime Drama and Comedy

    by David MacFadyen ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    Examining the role of dramatized narratives in Russian television, this book stresses the ways in which the Russian government under Putin use primetime television to express a new understanding of what it means to be Russian, answering key questions of national identity for modern Russians in dealing with their recent history: ‘What really happened to us?’ and, accordingly, ‘Why?’The book covers ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Japan And The Atrocities Of World War 2

    by Laurence Rees ...
    The question is as searing as it is fundamental to the continuing debate over Japanese culpability in World War II and the period leading up to it: "How could Japanese soldiers have committed such acts of violence against Allied prisoners of war and Chinese civilians?" During the First World War, the Japanese fought on the side of the Allies and treated German POWs with respect and civility. In ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Rasputin File

    by Edvard Radzinsky ...
    From the bestselling author of Stalin and The Last Tsar comes The Rasputin File, a remarkable biography of the mystical monk and bizarre philanderer whose role in the demise of the Romanovs and the start of the revolution can only now be fully known.For almost a century, historians could only speculate about the role Grigory Rasputin played in the downfall of tsarist Russia. But in 1995 a lost ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Incredible Tito

    Man of the Hour

    by Howard Fast ...
    Fast's fascinating biography of Joseph Broz, known to the world as Tito, including his rise to power and his remarkable stand against fascismThe world was mired in the Second World War when Howard Fast wrote The Incredible Tito. Upon the book's publication in 1944, there was still no united Yugoslavia, the Axis controlled most of Europe, and D-Day was only in the planning stages. In the Balkans, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Making of Buddhist Modernism

    by David L. McMahan ...
    A great deal of Buddhist literature and scholarly writing about Buddhism of the past 150 years reflects, and indeed constructs, a historically unique modern Buddhism, even while purporting to represent ancient tradition, timeless teaching, or the "essentials" of Buddhism. This literature, Asian as well as Western, weaves together the strands of different traditions to create a novel hybrid that ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Arrested Histories

    Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War

    by Carole McGranahan ...
    In the 1950s, thousands of ordinary Tibetans rose up to defend their country and religion against Chinese troops. Their citizen army fought through 1974 with covert support from the Tibetan exile government and the governments of India, Nepal, and the United States. Decades later, the story of this resistance is only beginning to be told and has not yet entered the annals of Tibetan national ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Breaking the Alabaster Jar

    Conversations with Li-Young Lee

    by Li-Young Lee ...
    In the foreword to Li-Young Lee’s first book, Rose (BOA Editions, 1986), Gerald Stern wrote, “What characterizes Li-Young Lee’s poetry is a certain kind of humility, a kind of cunning, a love of plain speech, a search for wisdom and understanding. . . . I think we are in the presence of a true spirit.” Poetry lovers agree! Rose has gone on to sell more than eighty thousand copies, and Li-Young Lee ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895

    Perceptions, Power, and Primacy

    by S. C. M. Paine ...
    The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 is a seminal event in world history, yet it has been virtually ignored in Western literature. In the East, the focus of Chinese foreign policy has been to undo its results whereas the focus of Japanese foreign policy has been to confirm them. Japan supplanted China as the dominant regional power, disrupting the traditional power balance and fracturing the ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

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  • Between East and West

    Across the Borderlands of Europe

    by Anne Applebaum ...
    In 1991, Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag, Iron Curtain and Red Famine, took a three-month road trip through the borderlands between the fallen Soviet Union and Europe—lands that became Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Moldova. In her iconic reportage, which has become indispensable history, she captures the harrowing story of a region that is once again threatened by Russia ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Stalin

    New Biography of a Dictator

    by Oleg V. Khlevniuk ...
    An engrossing biography of the notorious Russian dictator by an author whose knowledge of Soviet-era archives far surpasses all others.Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk's estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were ... Read more

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