Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, "Archives of Authority" argues that cultural politics - specifically America's often covert patronage of the arts - played a highly important role in the transfer of imperial authority from Britain to the United States during a critic...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Hebrew University's van Creveld remains unsurpassed as a scholar of war. In this provocative volume, he challenges perhaps the subject's single greatest shibboleth—at least in Western culture. Since the Enlightenment, war has been described as a means to an end, serving essentially rational interests. Nothing, van Creveld...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Hebrew University's van Creveld remains unsurpassed as a scholar of war. In this provocative volume, he challenges perhaps the subject's single greatest shibboleth—at least in Western culture. Since the Enlightenment, war has been described as a means to an end, serving essentially rational interests. Nothing, van Creveld...(展开全部)

The Cold War was not simply a duel of superpowers. It took place not just in Washington and Moscow but also in the social and political arenas of geographically far-flung countries emerging from colonial rule. Moreover, Cold War tensions were manifest not only in global political disputes but also in struggles over technology. Technological systems and expertise offered a power...(展开全部)

World War Two left two compelling, indelible images that colored the decades to come: the immense force of the Soviet Union's Red Army and the horrific devastation wrought by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki. For the next half-century, the great powers prepared themselves for another, deadlier international conflagration...one that never happened. Politicians and strate...(展开全部)

约翰•刘易斯•加迪斯（JOHN LEWIS GADDIS），现为耶鲁大学罗伯特•A.拉韦特（Robert A Lovett）讲座教授，著名的冷战史学家和大战略研究家，曾被《纽约时报》称作“冷战史学泰斗”，2005年获美国“国家人文奖章”（National Humanit ies Medal）。著有《遏制战略》（Strategies of Containment）、《长和平》（The Long Peace）、The United States and the Origins of the Cold War、、We Now Know、The landscape of History、Surprise, Security, and the American Experience、George F. Kennan。 翟强 ，美国奥本大学蒙哥马利校区历史系教授...(展开全部)

约翰•刘易斯•加迪斯（JOHN LEWIS GADDIS），现为耶鲁大学罗伯特•A.拉韦特（Robert A Lovett）讲座教授，著名的冷战史学家和大战略研究家，曾被《纽约时报》称作“冷战史学泰斗”，2005年获美国“国家人文奖章”（National Humanit ies Medal）。著有《遏制战略》（Strategies of Containment）、《长和平》（The Long Peace）、The United States and the Origins of the Cold War、、We Now Know、The landscape of History、Surprise, Security, and the American Experience、George F. Kennan。 翟强 ，美国奥本大学蒙哥马利校区历史系教授...(展开全部)