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1) The big time
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"Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to recall exactly the same past from one day to the next? Have you ever thought that the whole universe might be a crazy, mixed-up dream? If you have, then you've had hints of the Change War. It's been going on for a billion years and it will last another billion or so. Up and down the timeline, the two sides--"Spiders" and "Snakes"--Battle endlessly to change the future and the past....
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中文
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In the mid-19th century, China under the Qing dynasty suffered a series of natural disasters, economic problems, and defeats at the hands of the Western powers-in particular, the humiliating defeat in 1842 by the British in the First Opium War. The war disrupted shipping patterns and threw many out of work. It was these disaffected who flocked to join the charismatic visionary Hong Xiuquan. The sect's power grew in the late 1840s, initially suppressing...
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中文
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In the mid-19th century, China under the Qing dynasty suffered a series of natural disasters, economic problems, and defeats at the hands of the Western powers-in particular, the humiliating defeat in 1842 by the British in the First Opium War. The war disrupted shipping patterns and threw many out of work. It was these disaffected who flocked to join the charismatic visionary Hong Xiuquan.The sect's power grew in the late 1840s, initially suppressing...
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East European monographs volume no. 104
War and society in East Central Europe volume 3
Atlantic studies on society in change volume no. 12
War and society in East Central Europe volume 3
Atlantic studies on society in change volume no. 12
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Social Science Monographs, Brooklyn College Press
Pub. Date
1982
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English
9) Vietnam War
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Marshall Cavendish
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1991
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English
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Surveys the history of the conflict in Vietnam, from its involvement in France's colonial empire to the union of North and South Vietnam as a single communist nation after the withdrawal of American troops.
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Praeger Security International
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2009
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English
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Why do ethnic groups adopt violent means? In the 1990s, ethnicity emerged as the principle source of organized violence around the world. Ethnic wars were no longer internal conflicts between substate actors; instead they challenged state sovereignty and taxed the international community's ability to respond. Efforts to understand ethnic conflict remain divorced from the study of systemic change and the declining authority, capacity, and legitimacy...
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