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Admiral Togo
The Nelson of the East
by Jonathan Clements
This new biography spans Japan's sudden, violent leap out of its self-imposed isolation and into the 20th century. Delving beyond Togo's finest hour at the Battle of Tsushima, it portrays the life of a diffident Japanese sailor in Victorian Britain, his reluctant celebrity in America (where he was laid low by Boston cooking and welcomed by his biggest fan, Theodore Roosevelt), forgotten wars over the short-lived Republics of Ezo and Formosa, and the accumulation of peacetime experience that forged a wartime hero.
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2010-07-07
9781906598624
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World
Biography, History
Haus Price: £11.99
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Sir Robert Borden: Canada
Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Martin Thornton
This book is to be published on the 90th anniversary of Sir Robert Borden's resignation, having played a crucial role in transforming the British Empire into a partnership of equal states.
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2010-07-01
9781905791842
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World
History, Makers of the Modern World
Haus Price: £10.00
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Karoly & Bethlen: Hungary
Makers of the Modern World Series
by Bryan Cartledge
After the Trianon treaty, Hungary loses two-thirds of its territory and half its population -- “a punishment without historical precedent” according to Count Albert Apponyi
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2010-06-04
9781905791736
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World
History, Makers of the Modern World
Haus Price: £10.00
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Wellington Koo: China
Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Jonathan Clements
Gu Weijun, a.k.a. Wellington Koo was China’s first representative to the League of Nations, and ended up as acting president of Republican China during the unrest of the period 1926-27...
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2010-05-27
9781905791699
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World
History, Makers of the Modern World
Haus Price: £10.00
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Prince Saionji: Japan
Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
by Jonathan Clements
The Japanese delegation at the Paris Peace Conference did not have the Japanese prime or foreign ministers with them as they had only just been elected and had plenty to do back home. The delegation was instead led by Prince Saionji, the dashing ‘kingmaker’ of early 20th-century Japanese politics ...
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2010-05-27
9781905791682
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World
History, Makers of the Modern World
Haus Price: £10.00
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