Empire and righteous nation

600 years of China-Korea relations

Koreans long saw China as a mentor and protector. Chinese culture heavily influenced Korea, whose first written language used Chinese characters, while Confucianism shaped the structure of Korean government. This deep, sometimes fraught, relationship has done more to shape the politics of the region than ...

La Guerra Fría

una historia mundial

Tras la rendición de Alemania y luego de Japón en 1945 se abrigaron grandes esperanzas de poder crear un mundo nuevo y mucho mejor a partir de las ruinas morales y físicas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Sin embargo, la combinación del enorme poder de ...

La Guerra Fría

una historia mundial

Tras la rendición de Alemania y luego de Japón en 1945 se abrigaron grandes esperanzas de poder crear un mundo nuevo y mucho mejor a partir de las ruinas morales y físicas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Sin embargo, la combinación del enorme poder de ...

The Cold War

a world history

From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the world We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born ...

The Cambridge History of the Cold War

The Cambridge History of the Cold War is a comprehensive, international history of the conflict that dominated world politics in the twentieth century. The three-volume series, written by leading international experts in the field, elucidates how the Cold War evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic ...

The global Cold War

third world interventions and the making of our time

The second edition of Modern Algeria brings readers up to date with the outcome of the 2004 Algerian elections. Providing thorough coverage of the 1990s and the end of the Algerian Civil War, it addresses issues such as secularist struggles against fundamentalist Islam, ethnic and ...

Decisive encounters

the chinese civil war, 1946-1950

The chinese civil war was one of the key conflicts of the twentieth century. The communist victory determined Chinese history for several generations, and defined international relations in East Asia during the Cold War and after. Despite its importance and scope -its battles were the ...