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Author:

Li, Jieli, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006034872

Title:

Nine modern cases of state fragmentation from the American Revolution to Ukraine's loss of Crimea : a sociology of political history / Jieli Li ; with a foreword by Jonathan H. Turner.

Publisher:

Edwin Mellen Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

vi, 300 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Failed states.
Failed states--History.
Imperialism--History--18th century.
Imperialism--History--19th century.
Imperialism--History--20th century.
Geopolitics.
Failed states.
Geopolitics.
Imperialism.
1700 - 1999
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-297) and index.

Contents:

Geopolitics of the state -- The theory of state fragmentation -- The fragmentation of the British Empire in North America in the eighteenth century -- The fragmentation of the Qing Empire in China in the nineteenth century -- Comparing the American Civil War with the Chinese "Taiping Rebellion" in the mid-nineteenth century -- Fragmentation of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia -- A geopolitical diversity of state fragmentation: the cases of Singapore and Czechoslovakia -- Why did Ukraine break apart and lose Crimea to Russia?

ISBN:

1495503100
9781495503108

OCLC:

(OCoLC)937883493

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)