Племени осейджей повезло уцелеть, когда белые колонизовали Америку. И еще им повезло очутиться на богатых нефтью землях Оклахомы. На старте нефтяной лихорадки двадцатых пресса наперебой сообщала о сказочном обогащении ‘краснокожих миллионеров’. На этом везение индейцев закончилось, потому что их стали методично убивать: по одному и целыми семьями. Справиться с криминальным террором Эдгар Гувер,...

The Sino–Soviet border conflict refers to a series of armed border clashes between the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China at the height of the Sino–Soviet split in 1969. The most serious of these border clashes occurred in March 1969 in the vicinity of Zhenbao Island on the Ussuri River, also known as Damanskii Island in Russia.

Proshloe i budushchee rossiisko-iaponskikh otnoshenii: po sledam Katsura Taro, Goto Simpei, Nitobe Inadzo. Materialy Simpoziuma (Moskva 4 Okt 2004 g)

This monograph examines the development of relations between Persians and Arabs, as well as the genesis and current state of Iranian-Iraqi relations. The author traces the origins of Islamic civilization, the nature of Arab conquests, the historical destinies of Muslim peoples in the Middle Ages, and the course of modern and contemporary history in Iran and Iraq. The author analyzes the origins...

Central Asia on the way to integration: geopolitics, ethnicity and security.

This meticulously researched and very personal volume recounts in detail the history of the internment, most often referred to as the internal deportation, in Hungary of Hungary's aristocracy, military and professional classes as well as the more wealthy

The author explores the geopolitical, economic, diplomatic and religious reasons behind the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The book contains excerpts from several classic works on the Caucasus: articles on the war from the Entsiklopedicheskii slovar' Brokgauz i efron; chapters from V A Potto's 5 volume work on the Caucasus War and finally, Tbilisi in the 1830's, from the memoirs of F F Tornau.

In the darkness of the early morning of 3 March 1949, practically all of the Transylvanian aristocracy were arrested in their beds and loaded into lorries. That same day the Romanian WorkersÆ Party was pleased to announce the successful deportation and di

Before the advent of US military and political power in the Persian/Arabian Gulf region, this role was filled by England. In fact, many of these states were either under British protectorate status after WW I or were created by the British.