The Seven Years’ War, often called the first global war, spanned North America, the West Indies, Europe, and India. In these locations diseases such as scurvy, smallpox, and yellow fever killed far more than combat did, stretching the resources of European states. In Disease, War, and the Imperial State, Erica Charters demonstrates how disease played a vital role in shaping st...(展开全部)

作者简介 谢尔登·D.波拉克（Sheldon D.Pollack），特拉华大学法律研究项目主任、教授。他拥有宾夕法尼亚大学法学院法学学位和康奈尔大学政治学博士学位，著有《美国再融资：共和党抗税议程》（Refinancing America： The Republican Antitax Agenda、和《美国税收政策的失败：收入与政治》（The Failure of U.S. Tax Policy：Revenue and Politics）。 译者简介 李婉，1980年3月出生，浙江省瑞安市人，上海财经大学财政学博士，2008年起任教于上海立信会计金融学院，研究领域为中国财税体制与税收制度。

作者简介 谢尔登·D.波拉克（Sheldon D.Pollack），特拉华大学法律研究项目主任、教授。他拥有宾夕法尼亚大学法学院法学学位和康奈尔大学政治学博士学位，著有《美国再融资：共和党抗税议程》（Refinancing America： The Republican Antitax Agenda、和《美国税收政策的失败：收入与政治》（The Failure of U.S. Tax Policy：Revenue and Politics）。 译者简介 李婉，1980年3月出生，浙江省瑞安市人，上海财经大学财政学博士，2008年起任教于上海立信会计金融学院，研究领域为中国财税体制与税收制度。

What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Professor Waltz examines the ideas of major thinkers throughout the history of Western civilization. He explores works both by classic political philosophers, such as St. Augustine, Hobbes, Kant, and Rousseau, and by modern psychologists and anthropologists to discover ideas intended to explain war among states and related pr...(展开全部)

Color coded terror alerts, invasion, drone war, rampant surveillance: all manifestations of the type of new power Brian Massumi theorizes in Ontopower. Through an in-depth examination of the War on Terror and the culture of crisis, Massumi identifies the emergence of preemption, which he characterizes as the operative logic of our time. Security threats, regardless of the exist...(展开全部)