In 1543, the Ottoman fleet appeared off the coast of France to bombard and lay siege to the city of Nice. The operation, under the command of Admiral Barbarossa, came in response to a request from François I of France for assistance from Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent in France's struggle against Charles V, the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. This military allia...(展开全部)

David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as “the Great Infidel” for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was a revered professor of moral philosophy, and is now often hailed as the founding father of capitalism. Remarkably, the two were ...(展开全部)

▌[美] 丹尼斯·C.拉斯穆森 | Dennis C. Rasmussen . 美国雪城大学公民与公共事务学院政治学教授，专攻政治理论与政治思想史。研究兴趣包括启蒙运动、美国建国、自由民主制与市场资本主义。杜克大学政治学博士，曾在塔夫茨大学、休斯敦大学、布朗大学担任教职。著作还包括《日落的忧惧：美国国父的幻灭》等。

▌[美] 丹尼斯·C.拉斯穆森 | Dennis C. Rasmussen . 美国雪城大学公民与公共事务学院政治学教授，专攻政治理论与政治思想史。研究兴趣包括启蒙运动、美国建国、自由民主制与市场资本主义。杜克大学政治学博士，曾在塔夫茨大学、休斯敦大学、布朗大学担任教职。著作还包括《日落的忧惧：美国国父的幻灭》等。