Author Claudine Salmon presents readers with an examination of the depiction of Ming dynasty fugitives and refugees as portrayed by historians, writers, and artists of the Southeast Asian host countri
Ptak (sinology, Ludwig-Maximilians U. Munich) collects six articles written between 2007 and 2010 and delivered at various international conferences and at least some have been published before. They
The island of Hormuz in the Persian/Arabian Gulf was once a colony of Portugal, used mainly as a military outpost and source of contact with India, Persia and China. This collection touches on several
Presented at the December 2005 conference, these papers address the little-studied relationship of Portugal and Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka became a figure in the political imagination of Portugal when King
This book covers a little-known period of fighting in the Gulf of Finland. Its first chord was the German intervention in Finland and Estonia in early 1918 and evacuation of the Baltic Fleet through i
This new book covers the Sino-Japan Naval War 1894-1895, a little-known part of late 19thC naval history. The First Sino–Japanese War (1 August 1894 – 17 April 1895) was fought between Qing Dynasty C
Austrian submarines of World War I were known as "U-boot", an abbreviation of Unterseeboot. This book details the history of the development and operational use by the Austro-Hungarian navy of submari
