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Churchill
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 197

Churchill

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-06-17
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Keith Robbins provides an excellent introduction to Winston Churchill's dramatic rise to power and traces the unpredictable way his career moved between triumph and tragedy. Providing a vivid picture of the political landscapes through which he moved, it outlines his career and uncovers what made possible Churchill's leading role in national and world affairs.

Nehru
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Nehru

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-06-17
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Judith Brown explores Nehru as a figure of power and provides an assessment of his leadership at the head of a newly independent India with no tradition of democratic politics.

Trotsky
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Trotsky

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Without Trotsky there would have been no Bolshevik Revolution, but Trotsky was no Bolshevik. Providing a full account of Trotsky’s role during the Russian Civil War and concentrating on his time as an active participant in Russian revolutionary politics, rather than his ideological writings of emigration, Swain gives the student a very different picture of the Bolshevik Commissar of War. This radically new interpretation of Trotsky’s career spanning 1905-1917 incorporates the tense relationship between Trotsky and Lenin until 1917, and pays particular attention to the Russian Civil War and Trotsky’s military organisation and contribution to the war. Swain argues critically that Trotsky achieved where Lenin would have failed, suggesting that Trotsky was in the main part responsible for the Bolshevik Revolution.

Kennedy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Kennedy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-07-10
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This invaluable account provides an excellent introduction to the Presidency of John F. Kennedy. To understand Kennedy's aims and achievements in the White House, it looks at Kennedy the man and outlines his background and early career and the influences upon him. Hugh Brogan shows Kennedy as a credible statesman, a man of solid achievement. His record as President was, broadly, impressive and would have been more so had he lived.

Rethinking Law and Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

Rethinking Law and Development

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book examines the relationship between law and China's economic and human development. It explores the development of the Chinese legal system both from China's historical perspective considering the specific political and socioeconomic factors that are shaping Chinese law and from a comparative perspective, exploring the interaction between China and the rest of the world. It considers the both the linkages between the formal law and China's economic development, and issues of law, human rights, and social justice as they relate to economic and human development.

System Identification and Robust Control
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 317

System Identification and Robust Control

The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology impacts all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes, computer methods, new applications, new philosophies, ... , new challenges. Much of this development work resides in industrial reports, feasibility study papers and the reports of advanced collaborative projects. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of such new work in all aspects of industrial control for wider and rapid dissemination. The present text Steen T0ffner-Clau...

Napoleon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

Napoleon

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-06-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This invaluable account provides an excellent introduction to the nature and mechanics of Napoleon's power, and how he used it. It explores Napoleon's rise to fame as a soldier of the French Revolution and his aims and achievements as first consul and emperor during the years 1799-1815.

The Younger Pitt
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

The Younger Pitt

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-02-04
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Younger Pitt was a phenomenon: dead at 46, he was not only Britain's youngest but also the second longest-serving Prime Minister to date, acting as premier for 19 of his 25 years in Parliament. In examining this astonishing career, this incisive Profile focuses on the means by which Pitt gained and maintained his hold on power. It provides new information on Pitt's relations with the strong-willed George III; on the nature of his ascendancy over his cabinet colleagues; his management of Parliament; his skill as a manipulator of public opinion; his role in Britain's international resurgence after the loss of America; and, of course, on the long struggle against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France.

Oliver Cromwell
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

Oliver Cromwell

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-07-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Oliver Cromwell is one of the most puzzling and controversial figures in English history. In this excellent introduction, Barry Coward uses Cromwell's own words and actions to analyse the life of Oliver Cromwell as a political figure and look at the historical problems associated with his exercise of power.

Tanaka
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 139

Tanaka

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-06-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Kakuei Tanaka was the most powerful politician in Japan for nearly two decades, and his followers have dominated Japanese politics for most of the country's recent history. This account of the life and times of Tanaka explores the public profile and private power-broking of a controversial and powerful politician, opening up in the process the intimate political history of modern Japan.