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  • Principles of Maritime Power

    by Bruce A. Elleman ...
    Maritime powers dominate the planet, from the British empire of the 19th century, to the American post-World War II domination of global affairs. To a large degree their control of the globe is based on control of the seas. This book seeks to examine the strengths and weaknesses of maritime power, including specific chapters on mutiny, blockades, coalitions, piracy, expeditionary warfare, commerce ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • China’s Naval Operations in the South China Sea

    Evaluating Legal, Strategic and Military Factors

    by Bruce Elleman ...
    Series series Politics, Security and Society in Asia Pacific
    This book provides a history of the South China Sea conflict and lays out the stakes for each of the bordering states and China’s interaction with them – namely, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Indonesia; it also examines the U.S. government’s role in the region. China’s Naval Operations in the South China Sea is highly topical; it examines the evolving perception of the ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Wilson and China: A Revised History of the Shandong Question

    A Revised History of the Shandong Question

    by Bruce Elleman ...
    Drawing on sources in Japanese, Chinese, and American archives and libraries, this book reassesses another facet of Woodrow Wilson's agenda at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I. Breaking with accepted scholarly opinions, the author argues that Wilson did not "betray" China, as many Chinese and Western scholars have charged; rather, Wilson successfully negotiated a ... Read more

    $109.92 CAD

  • US-China Naval Co-operation Against the Soviet Union

    Carter’s Navy

    by Bruce A. Elleman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This book discusses the key role of the transfer of naval technology from the U.S. to China in building up the Chinese Navy during the Cold War.Revealing how this process began in the late 1970s under the Carter Administration when Deng Xiaoping was newly in power, and how it accelerated under both the Reagan and Bush administrations, moving from the transfer of simple technology to entire naval ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Beijing's Power and China's Borders

    Twenty Neighbors in Asia

    by Bruce Elleman ...
    China shares borders with 20 other countries. Each of these neighbors has its own national interests, and in some cases, these include territorial and maritime jurisdictional claims in places that China also claims. Most of these 20 countries have had a history of border conflicts with China; some of them never amicably settled. This book brings together some of the foremost historians, ... Read more

    Was $83.99 CAD Now $74.19 CAD

  • Diplomacy and Deception

    Secret History of Sino-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1917-27

    by Bruce Elleman ...
    During the Soviet period the USSR conducted diplomatic relations with incumbent regimes while simultaneously cultivating and manipulating communist movements in those same countries. The Chinese case offers a particularly interesting example of this dual policy, for when the Chinese Communists came to power in 1949, their discovery of the nature of Moscow's imperial designs on Chinese territory ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Moscow and the Emergence of Communist Power in China, 1925–30

    The Nanchang Uprising and the Birth of the Red Army

    by Bruce Elleman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This book examines the emergence of Communist power in China during the interwar period, focusing especially on the role of the Soviet Union and the 1927 Nanchang Uprising. It describes the history behind the alliance between the Chinese Communists and Nationalists, the impact of the USSR's military and political advisers, and the success of the Northern Expedition that resulted in the April 1927 ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • International Rivalry and Secret Diplomacy in East Asia, 1896-1950

    by Bruce Elleman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    East Asia was a major focus of struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War of 1945 to 1991, with multiple "hot" and "cold" conflicts in China, Korea, and Vietnam. The struggle for predominance in East Asia, however, largely predated the Cold War, as this book shows, with many examples of the United States and Russia/the Soviet Union working to exercise and increase ... Read more

    Was $90.99 CAD Now $81.06 CAD

  • Japanese-American Civilian Prisoner Exchanges and Detention Camps, 1941-45

    by Bruce Elleman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    The important and previously undocumented event in the history of the Second World War: the negotiation of 'prisoner' exchanges between the United States and Japan during 1941 to 1943, is examined here by Bruce Elleman.Approximately 7000 American citizens had been arrested by the Japanese authorities while visiting Japan as tourists, conducting business, teaching English or carrying out missionary ... Read more

    Was $32.97 CAD Now $28.84 CAD

  • Modern China

    Continuity and Change, 1644 to the Present

    by S. C. M. Paine, Bruce A. Elleman ...
    Now in a fully updated edition, this accessible text provides a balanced history of modern China in a global context. Through years of living and research in China, Taiwan, Japan, and Russia, the authors are deeply qualified to understand China’s internal dynamics as well as its foreign relations over centuries. Arguing that modern Chinese history cannot be understood without a deep appreciation ... Read more

    $94.69 CAD

  • Manchurian Railways and the Opening of China: An International History

    An International History

    by Bruce Elleman, Stephen Kotkin ...
    The railways of Manchuria offer an intriguing vantage point for an international history of northeast Asia. Before the completion of the Trans-Siberian railway in 1916, the only rail route from the Imperial Russian capital of St. Petersburg to the Pacific port of Vladivostok transited Manchuria. A spur line from the Manchurian city of Harbin led south to ice-free Port Arthur. Control of these two ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • The ABCs of Cold War History

    Anglo-America, Bloc Sovietique, China, 1919-1994

    by Bruce A. Elleman ...
    A short, but highly relevant, history of the Cold War, 1919–1994, and its significance today. The 75-year Cold War pitted the Anglo-American world against the Soviet Bloc, with China, the ultimate prize. Chapter A will examine the creation of the Anglo-American Special Relationship, the end of World War I, 1919 Versailles Peace Treaty, and the lead-in to World War II. Chapter B will examine the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD