Adaptable autocrats regime power in Egypt and Syria by Stacher, Joshua 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Debating authoritarianism -- The origins of executive authority -- Adaptation and elite co-optation -- Adaptation and nonelite co-optation -- The 2011 uprisings and the future of autocratic adaptation…”

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

Get full text
Rights

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.)

“…An April Aria, by Munkittrick -- "As Good as a Play", by Scudder -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, by Holmes -- The Briefless Barrister, by Saxe -- A Cable-Car Preacher, by Foss -- Cæsar's Quiet Lunch with Cicero, by Fields -- Cheer for…”
Get full text
Rights

Asia's cauldron the South China Sea and the end of a stable Pacific by Kaplan, Robert D. 1952

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : the ruins of Champa -- The humanist dilemma -- China's Caribbean -- The fate of Vietnam -- The concert of civilizations? -- The good autocrat -- America's colonial burden -- Asia's Berlin -- The state of nature -- Epilogue : the slums of Borneo…”

Before and beyond divergence the politics of economic change in China and Europe by Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent, Wong, Roy Bin

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Space and politics -- Population, resources, and economic growth -- Formal and informal mechanisms for market development -- Warfare, location of manufacturing, and economic growth in China and Europe -- Credit markets and economic change -- Autocrats, war, taxes, and public goods -- Political economies of growth, 1500-1950 -- Conclusion: Findings, methods and implications…”

King of kings the triumph and tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia by Asfa-Wossen Asserate

Bangkok May 2010 perspectives on a divided Thailand

Table of Contents: “…/ Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker -- From red to Red : an auto-ethnography of economic and political transitions in a northeastern Thai village / Pattana Kitiarsa -- The rich, the powerful and the banana man : the United States' position in the Thai crisis / Pavin Chachavalpongpun -- The social bases of autocratic rule in Thailand / Craig J. Reynolds -- The strategy of the United Front for Democracy against dictatorship on "double standards" : a grand gesture to history, justice, and accountability / David Streckfuss -- No way forward but back? …”

Gandhi my experiments with truth : an autobiography by Gandhi Mahatma 1869-1948

Table of Contents: “…'Love's labours lost'? -- Autocrats from Asia -- Pocketed the insult -- Quickened spirit of sacrifice -- Result of introspection -- Sacrifice to vegetarianism -- Experiments in earth and water treatments -- Warning -- Tussle with power -- Sacred recollection and penance -- Intimate European contacts -- 'Indian opinion' -- Coolie locations or ghettoes? …”

The Arab Spring and Arab thaw unfinished revolutions and the quest for democracy

Dictators without borders power and money in Central Asia by Cooley, Alexander 1972-, Heathershaw, John

Desert kingdoms to global powers the rise of the Arab Gulf by Miller, Rory 1971-

Afghanistan beyond the fog of war persistent failure of a rentier state by Fredholm, Michael

Maharajah of Bikaner India by Purcell, Hugh

The Levant express the Arab uprisings, human rights, and the future of the Middle East by Ishay, Micheline

The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III : THE EAST INDIA COMPANY AND THE CRISIS AND TRANSFORMATION OF BRITAIN'S IMPERIAL STATE / by Vaughn, James M. (James Martin), 1978-

Hard choices security, democracy, and regionalism in Southeast Asia

The invention of Russia from Gorbachev's freedom to Putin's war by Ostrovsky, Arkady 1971-

Assessing the impact of transitional justice challenges for empirical research

Armies and insurgencies in the Arab Spring