Read or Download The Limits of Foreign Policy: The West, the League and the Far Eastern Crisis of 1931–1933 PDF

Similar eastern books

Get Beings and Their Attributes: The Teaching of the Basrian PDF

The educating of the basrian college of the Mu'tazila within the Classical interval

Download PDF by Chinul: The Collected Works of Chinul: The Korean Approach to Zen

Buddhist Texts Through the Ages - download pdf or read online

This exact anthology of Buddhist scriptures strains the improvement of Buddhism throughout the a long time and around the globe. Designed to serve students and scholars alike, this vintage textual content has develop into a invaluable source for Buddhists and all those that desire to probe for themselves the unique resources of 1 of the world's nice religions.

Read e-book online The Concealed Essence of the Hevajra Tantra: With the PDF

The treatise consists of discourses among the Bhagavan Buddha and his disciple Vajragarba, and contains discourses among the Bhagavan and his consort. The Hevajra Tantra, like different Buddhist Sutras and Tantras, commences with the Nidanavakyam--evam maya srutam (Thus have I heard). this is often the resource for the disclose of the Upaya, The capacity, the modes of perform.

• The psychology of nirvana
• Local worlds : rural livelihood strategies in eastern Cape, South Africa
• Pure, Strong and Sexless: The Peasant Woman's Body and Gleb Uspensky (Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics 43) (Studies in Slavic Literature & Poetics)
• Buddhist Monk, Buddhist Layman: A Study of Urban Monastic Organization in Central Thailand
• Divine Revelation in Pali Buddhism
• Buddhism in Practice

Extra info for The Limits of Foreign Policy: The West, the League and the Far Eastern Crisis of 1931–1933

Example text

Kelman (ed), International Behavior (New York, 5 Teichman, 50. 1966). 6 Gull, 43. Cf. G. Kiernan, The Lords of Human Kind (London, 1969). 18 EXPOSITION and until1898 British trade outstripped that of other states. A. to China exceeded Britain's) and the China trade had come to be rivalled by that with other Far Eastern areas, 2 British money continued to represent by far the largest portion of foreign investment in that country. 8 The interests of other European states in China in this period need not be examined in detail.

A. had already become apparent-again, foreshadowing a major feature of the 1931-3 crisis. The 1911 revision of the alliance with Japan had been planned on the British side partly in order to avoid the possible consequence of having to fight against the United States, and by 1919 there was a strong belief in the Foreign Office that it should be replaced by an entente between the three countries. Anxiety to avoid a naval race with America and not to alienate her at a time of debt negotiations pointed in a similar direction.

The agreement referred to Korea, Manchuria and Fukien for Japan, Indo-China and South China in the case of France. On the significance of various European/Far Eastern agreements of this period, see Hudson, 139-40. 6 E. vy, Imperialism and the Rise of Labour (London, 1961), 40. 7 Quoted in Nish, 12-13. 8 D. Thomson, England in the Nineteenth Century (Harmondsworth, 1950), 203; G. M. Young, Victorian England: Portrait of an Age (London, 1960), 183. THE SETTING IN THE FAR EAST, I 25 the limits to British power and influence on the continent of Europe had been made more plain during the Austro-Prussian war with Denmark, 1 while since the 1870s the predominant position of British industry and even finance had been threatened and, in some respects, lost.

Download PDF sample