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)

There can be little doubt of the canonical drone aesthetic: a flattened aeriality that moves with an inhuman smoothness, drifting and pitching to capture an uncanny vantage. But with the unfolding, contested landscape of drone development and proliferating drone use, how is this disruptive technology changing our understanding of war, culture, and ecology? This edited collectio...(展开全部)

There can be little doubt of the canonical drone aesthetic: a flattened aeriality that moves with an inhuman smoothness, drifting and pitching to capture an uncanny vantage. But with the unfolding, contested landscape of drone development and proliferating drone use, how is this disruptive technology changing our understanding of war, culture, and ecology? This edited collectio...(展开全部)

马丁·范克勒韦尔德(Matin van Creveld，1946- )，生于荷兰，现为以色列耶路撒冷的希伯来大学教授，是世界著名军事历史学家和战略研究专家。共有18部著作，译成14种语言，被认为是研究未来战争的最重要的参考书籍。他还担任着包括美国在内的许多国家国防部的顾问，是第二位受邀在以色列军队总参谋部讲演的平民专家，曾在几乎所有军事战略研究机构任教或开办讲座。曾接受CNN、BBC、美国《新闻周刊》、《国际先驱论坛报》等著名国际媒体的采访或为之撰文。

马丁·范克勒韦尔德(Matin van Creveld，1946- )，生于荷兰，现为以色列耶路撒冷的希伯来大学教授，是世界著名军事历史学家和战略研究专家。共有18部著作，译成14种语言，被认为是研究未来战争的最重要的参考书籍。他还担任着包括美国在内的许多国家国防部的顾问，是第二位受邀在以色列军队总参谋部讲演的平民专家，曾在几乎所有军事战略研究机构任教或开办讲座。曾接受CNN、BBC、美国《新闻周刊》、《国际先驱论坛报》等著名国际媒体的采访或为之撰文。

T. C. W. 布兰宁（T. C. W. Blanning，1942— ），英国历史学家，剑桥大学历史学荣休教授，英国国家学术院院士。主要研究从17世纪到第一次世界大战前的近代欧洲史。2016年，荣获英国国家学术院奖章。代表作有《浪漫主义革命：缔造现代世界的人文运动》《追逐荣耀：1648—1815》《腓特烈大帝》等书。 梁赤民，1957年生，安庆师范大学外语系毕业。1998年被评为安徽省模范教师、全国优秀教师，退休前为安徽冶金科技职业学院副院长、英语副教授，现任中国职业教育“走出去”试点项目工作组副组长、中国-赞比亚职业技术学院院长。主要教学与研究领域为英汉翻译理论。译有《全球通史：从史前到21世纪》《文艺复兴》等书。 刘昊，山东师范大学翻译硕士，2017年获得CATTI二级笔译资格证书。现为山东交通学院英语教师，主要研究方向为翻译教学。累计翻译及...(展开全部)

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)

Confucianism has shaped a certain perception of Chinese security strategy, symbolized by the defensive, nonaggressive Great Wall. Many believe China is antimilitary and reluctant to use force against its enemies. Instead, the country practices pacifism and refrains from expanding its boundaries, even when nationally strong. In a path-breaking study that travels seven hundred ye...(展开全部)

Confucianism has shaped a certain perception of Chinese security strategy, symbolized by the defensive, nonaggressive Great Wall. Many believe China is antimilitary and reluctant to use force against its enemies. Instead, the country practices pacifism and refrains from expanding its boundaries, even when nationally strong. In a path-breaking study that travels seven hundred ye...(展开全部)