Author : R. R. Milner-Gulland
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816022076
A 1000-year history of Russian culture and society intermingles illustrations, interpretation, and special features to provide an in-depth background to present Russia
Author : R. R. Milner-Gulland
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816038152
Covers geography, history, culture, and archaeology
Author : R. R. Milner-Gulland
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,3 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816022076
A 1000-year history of Russian culture and society intermingles illustrations, interpretation, and special features to provide an in-depth background to present Russia
Author : John Davies
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 39,67 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 022638960X
The “utterly fascinating” untold story of Soviet Russia’s global military mapping program—featuring many of the surprising maps that resulted (Marina Lewycka, author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian). From 1950 to 1990, the Soviet Army conducted a global topographic mapping program, creating large-scale maps for much of the world that included a diversity of detail that would have supported a full range of military planning. For big cities like New York, Washington, D.C., and London to towns like Pontiac, MI, and Galveston, TX, the Soviets gathered enough information to create street-level maps. The information on these maps ranged from the locations of factories and ports to building heights, road widths, and bridge capacities. Some of the detail suggests early satellite technology, while other specifics, like detailed depictions of depths and channels around rivers and harbors, could only have been gained by Soviet spies on the ground. The Red Atlas includes over 350 extracts from these incredible Cold War maps, exploring their provenance and cartographic techniques as well as what they can tell us about their makers and the Soviet initiatives that were going on all around us.
Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 17,50 MB
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1135108307
The complex and often turbulent history of Russia over the course of 2,000 years is brought to life in a series of 176 maps by one of the most prolific and successful historian authors today. This fourth edition of The Routledge Atlas of Russian History covers not only the wars and expansion of Russia but also a wealth of less conspicuous details of its history, from famine and anarchism to the growth of naval strength and the strengths of the river systems. From 800 BC to the fall of the Soviet Union, this indispensable guide to Russian history covers: war and conflict: from the triumph of the Goths between 200 and 400 BC to the defeat of Germany at the end of the Second World War and the end of the Cold War politics: from the rise of Moscow in the Middle Ages to revolution, the fall of the monarchy and the collapse of communism industry, economics and transport: from the Trans-Siberian Railway between 1891 and 1917 to the Virgin Lands Campaign and the growth of heavy industry society, trade and culture: from the growth of monasticism to peasant discontent, Labour Camps and the geographical distribution of ethnic Russians. Now bringing new material to view, and including seven new maps, this popular atlas will more than readily gain a place on the bookshelves of anyone interested in the history of Russia.
Author : Randall E. Newnham
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 26,12 MB
Release : 2009-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0271046422
Whether economic sanctions work at all, and how they work if they do, are questions that have long been debated by scholars of international relations. Using a new analytic approach, which distinguishes between positive and negative sanctions and between specific and general sanctions, this book aims both to demonstrate the importance of economic linkage and to explain the variety of forms it can take. Deutsche Mark Diplomacy draws support for its theoretical arguments from a careful study of Germany's efforts to gain political leverage over Russia via economic means from 1870 into the 1990s. Focusing on two major powers over a long period, during which regimes changed and issues varied, Randall Newnham finds strong evidence to show that positive forms of linkage such as foreign aid and trade or credit incentives are more effective than negative types such as embargoes. His book significantly expands our understanding of the role played by economic sanctions in international politics at the same time that it offers a more systematic way of explaining German foreign policy.
Author : Walter G. Moss
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 15,3 MB
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0857287524
This new edition retains the features of the first edition that made it a popular choice in universities and colleges throughout the US, Canada and around the world. Moss's accessible history includes full treatment of everyday life, the role of women, rural life, law, religion, literature and art. In addition, it provides many other features that have proven successful, including: a well-organized and clearly written text, references to varying historical perspectives, numerous illustrations and maps, fully updated bibliographies accompanying each chapter as well as a general bibliography, a glossary, and chronological and genealogical lists.
Author : Walter G. Moss
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0857287397
Moss has significantly revised his text and bibliography in this second edition to reflect new research findings and controversies on numerous subjects. He has also brought the history up to date by revising the post-Soviet material, which now covers events from the end of 1991 up to the present day. This new edition retains the features of the successful first edition that have made it a popular choice in universities and colleges throughout the US, Canada and around the world.
Author : Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 30,49 MB
Release : 2005-03-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780716768258
More than any other text for the course, Pulsipher's World Regional Geography (WRG) shows students how individuals are affected by, and respond to, economic, social, and political forces at all levels of scale: global, regional, subregional, local. It offers a vivid and inclusive picture of people in a globalizing world--men, women, children, both mainstream and marginalized citizens--not as seen from a Western perspective, but as they see themselves. The core topics of physical, economic, cultural, and political geography are examined from a contemporary perspective, based on authoritative insights from the most recent geographic theory. Two Versions of the Text Available: World Regional Geography: Global Patterns, Local Lives Without Subregions Third Edition 475 pages January 2005 (©2006), 0-7167-6825-9 Text with Optional Student CD-ROM, 0-7167-6843-7 World Regional Geography: Global Patterns, Local Lives With Subregions Third Edition 625 pages January 2005 (©2006), 0-7167-1904-5 Text with Optional Student CD-ROM, 0-7167-6258-7
Author : Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 31,43 MB
Release : 2007-09-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780716777922
Shows how individuals are affected by, and respond to, economic, social, and political forces at all levels of scale: global, regional and local. It offers an inclusive picture of people in a globalizing world - men, women, children, both mainstream and marginalized citizens - not as seen from a western perspective, but as they see themselves. Core topics of physical, economic, cultural, and political geography are examined from a contemporary perspective, based on authoritative insights from recent geographic theory and examples from countries from around the world.
