Barry J. Naughton & Dali L. Yang 
Holding China Together [PDF ebook] 
Diversity and National Integration in the Post-Deng Era

A discussion of the structure and role of migration flows affecting France from 1850 to the present day. It covers both internal and international movements and consideration is given both to broad m …

Incidences of public disorder, and the manner in which they have been suppressed, have repeatedly ignited debate on the role of policing, the effectiveness of current legislation and the implications …

Patenting Lives includes contributions from various interests and perspectives, both in the context of current international developments in life patents and the global agenda of harmonization of int …

‚Collateral damage‘ is a military term for the inadvertent casualties and destruction inflicted on civilians in the course of military operations. In Collateral Damage: Americans, Noncombatant Immuni …

This new book reviews critically recent studies of fire control, and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought era.With a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert, it shows how, in 191 …

Until this book, there has been no comprehensive, methodologically aware study of all aspects of Chinese political culture. The book is organized into three major areas: Chinese identities and popula …

This is the first full-length study of Demetrius of Alexandria (189–232 ce), who generated a neglected, yet remarkable hagiographic program that secured him a positive legacy throughout the Middle Ag …

This classic text outlines the development of the Papacy as an institution in the Middle Ages. With profound knowledge, insight and sophistication, Walter Ullmann traces the course of papal history f …

Imperial Russia, 1801-1905 traces the development of the Russian Empire from the murder of “mad Tsar Paul“ to the reforms of the 1890s that were an attempt to modernise the autocratic state. This i …

There is a strong and enduring interest in the history of the Nazi period/the Third Reich There are surprisingly few good recent books on Nazi foreign policy Emphasis on world connections, not just E …