Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introductory: The Eurasian Embrace. Laying Siege to Germany with World War I, 1900 - 18 -- The Second Reich: The Tragedy of an Imperial Upstart -- The Heartland, the Crescent and the Nightmare of British Geopolitics -- The Blood of the Romanovs and the Encirclement of...

Can bombs and broadcasts instigate resistance against a foreign regime? In this paper, we examine the canonical case of bombing designed to undermine enemy morale-the Allied bomber offensive against Germany during World War II. Our evidence shows that air power and the airwaves indeed undermined...

Two series of German bonds, issued in 1924 and 1930, traded on the London Stock Exchange throughout Hitler's 1933-1945 regime in Germany. We isolate both structural breaks and turning points in these bond series. Major turning points follow Hitler's reintroduction of conscription in 1935, the...

The problems of competition in agriculture have been highlighted recently by disagreement over the European Community's Common Agricultural Policy. This book presents an analysis of the roots of these problems in agrarian politics from 1846-1919