Nine modern cases of state fragmentation from the American Revolution to Ukraine's loss of Crimea
Subtitle: a sociology of political history
By: Jieli Li ; with a foreword by Jonathan H. Turner
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Lewiston, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781495503108
Subjects: Failed states; History; Imperialism; Geopolitics
Other titles: 9 modern cases of state fragmentation from the American Revolution to Ukraine's loss of Crimea
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-297) and index.
Table of contents: title: Geopolitics of the state; title: The theory of state fragmentation; title: The fragmentation of the British Empire in North America in the eighteenth century; title: The fragmentation of the Qing Empire in China in the nineteenth century; title: Comparing the American Civil War with the Chinese "Taiping Rebellion" in the mid-nineteenth century; title: Fragmentation of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia; title: A geopolitical diversity of state fragmentation: the cases of Singapore and Czechoslovakia; title: Why did Ukraine break apart and lose Crimea to Russia?