1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000029586

Autore

Van Doren, Carl <1885-1950>

Titolo

Swift / by Carl Van Doren

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : Viking press, 1930

Descrizione fisica

279 p., [8] carte di tav. ; 25 cm.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463721603321

Autore

Bush Richard C. <1947-, >

Titolo

At cross purposes : U.S.-Taiwan relations since 1942 / / Richard C. Bush

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

0-7656-1373-5

1-315-70625-3

1-317-47630-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Collana

Taiwan in the Modern World

East Gate Book

Disciplina

327.7305124/9

Soggetti

Electronic books.

United States Foreign relations Taiwan

Taiwan Foreign relations United States

United States Foreign relations 1945-1989

United States Foreign relations 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"An East Gate Book."

First published 2004 by M.E. Sharpe.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-278) and index.



Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. The wartime decision to return Taiwan to China -- 3. Difficult dilemmas : the United States and Kuomingtang repression, 1947-1979 -- 4. The status of the ROC and Taiwan, 1950-1972 : explorations in United States Policy -- 5. The "sacred texts" of United States-China-Taiwan relations -- 6. Congress gets into the Taiwan Human Rights Act -- 7. Taiwan policy making since Tiananmen : navigating through shifting waters -- 8. Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

Written by the former chairman and managing director of the American Institute in Taiwan, this book sheds new light on key topics in the history of U.S.-Taiwan relations. It fills an important gap in our understanding of how the U.S. government addressed Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait issue from the early 1940s to the present. One theme that runs through these essays is the series of obstacles erected that denied the people of Taiwan a say in shaping their own destiny: Franklin Roosevelt chose to return Taiwan to mainland China for geopolitical reasons; there was little pressure on the Kuomintan

3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996383840703316

Autore

Evelyn John <1620-1706.>

Titolo

A panegyric to Charles the Second [[electronic resource] ] : presented to His Majestie the xxxiii. [sic] of April, being the day of his coronation, MDCLXI

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for John Crooke ..., [1661]

Descrizione fisica

16 p

Soggetti

Coronations - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Date of publication suggested by Wing.

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018