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This book examines the life and times of the postwar Japanese prime ministers from 1945 to 1995. Written by Japans leading scholars, it is the first biographical portrait in English of these twenty-three individuals who helped lead Japan on its road to recovery, its return to the community of nations, and its subsequent prosperity.

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This book analyses how British China officials grappled with Chinas changing position in international affairs during the 20th century.

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These essays explore the effects of revolutions upon German history form 1789 to 1989 - the date of Germany's "peaceful revolution" - and discusses the fundamental questions of reform and revolution, the effects of war, counter-revolution and defeat on the social process of modernization.

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This fascinating guide documents the transformation of government from passive observer to active participant and ally of the American people during the late-19th and early-20th centuries.

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A spellbinding story of love and the history of modern China.

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Powerful and provocative, this is a beautifully written and very personal search to understand the men who were the protectors of Aboriginal people in Australia's north - their moral ambiguities, their good intentions and the devastating consequences of their decisions.

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At midnight on 14 August 1947, Britain finally granted independence to the peoples of India. Throughout the world, the end of the colonial era was in sight. This text looks at the international implications of this day.

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Delving into original sources, including eyewitness accounts and regimental histories known only to German scholars, this book tells the story of the soldiers on the ground: how they were organised and drilled, their previous service; their march to the battlefield; and what they did when they got there.

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Studies the creation of a distinctive 'high' culture in the industrial cities of Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester in the mid-nineteenth century and its incipient decline from the 1880s. This book argues for the importance of ritualised modes of social behaviour in understanding the construction of authority in the nineteenth-century city.

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This society peaked in the year AD 1100, when more than 150 Chacoan towns, in addition to the 12 great houses in Chaco Canyon, and perhaps 30,000 people across the greater San Juan Basin of the southwestern United States were affiliated with Chaco.

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The three Punic Wars lasted nearly 100 years, from 264BC to 146BC. They represented a struggle in the Mediterranean between the bludgeoning land power of Rome, bent on imperial conquest, and the great maritime power of Carthage. This is a comprehensive account of a complicated historical period.

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The Punic Wars (264-146 BC) sprang from a mighty power struggle between two ancient civilizations - the trading empire of Carthage and the military confederation of Rome. It was a period of astonishing human misfortune, lasting over a period of 118 years.

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The Puritans came to New England not merely to save their souls but to establish a visible kingdom of God, a society where outward conduct would be according to God's laws. This book discusses the desire of the Puritans to be socially virtuous and their wish to force social virtue upon others.

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The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 presents the ideology of mobility which Puritan leaders developed to justify migration and town founding. New England towns were born as living bodies politic with a metaphysical basis in keeping with Christian corporatist theory.

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The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 presents the ideology of mobility which Puritan leaders developed to justify migration and town founding. New England towns were born as living "bodies politic" with a metaphysical basis in keeping with Christian corporatist theory.

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This annotated bibliography is the first to cover the early phases of the Korean War, for the period from June 25 to September 22, 1950, in a comprehensive manner.

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"Original version Mai Mohammed Al Khalifa, 1999, Arabic-Language 2end edition published as Min sawad al-Kufah ila al-Bahrayn: al-Qaramitah min fikrah ila dawlah, Bayrut: al-Mu assasah al-Arabiyah lil-Dirasat wa-al-Nashr, 2010"---verso page.

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Detailed and highly-researched history of the Iranian presidency and the holders of the post of President.