Designed for use at the college level as a textbook for military history courses or supplemental reading for world history courses, this text offers an introduction and original synthesis of global military history. Each chapter traces key developments in military institutions and practices set in three crucial contexts: politics and institutions; social structures and economic...(展开全部)

First published over thirty years ago, War in European History is a brilliantly written survey of the changing ways that war has been waged in Europe, from the Norse invasions to the present day. Far more than a simple military history, the book serves as a succinct and enlightening overview of the development of European society as a whole over the last millennium. From the No...(展开全部)

First published over thirty years ago, War in European History is a brilliantly written survey of the changing ways that war has been waged in Europe, from the Norse invasions to the present day. Far more than a simple military history, the book serves as a succinct and enlightening overview of the development of European society as a whole over the last millennium. From the No...(展开全部)

'Wars have often determined the character of society. Society in exchange has determined the character of wars. This is the theme of Michael Howard's stimulating book. It is written with all his usual skill and in its small compass is perhaps the most original book he has written. Though he surveys a thousand years of history, he does so without sinking in a slough of facts and...(展开全部)

作者简介 奥兰多·费吉斯（Orlando Figes），英国人，生于1959年，剑桥大学三一学院博士，现任英国伦敦大学伯贝克学院历史学教授。俄国生活的方方面面，不论是文学艺术，还是政治经济，他都烂熟于心，无人能出其右。他的一系列解读沙俄及苏联历史的著作如《耳语者：斯大林时代苏联的私人生活》《娜塔莎之舞：俄罗斯文化史》等都取得了非凡的成就，是当今英语世界俄罗斯研究的一流大家。作品曾获沃尔夫森奖、NCR图书奖，并入围萨缪尔·约翰逊奖、达夫·库珀奖等，已被翻译成二十多种文字出版。 译者简介 吕品，香港科技大学细胞生物学博士，在英国学术、新闻及商业机构工作多年，曾担任英国《卫报》中文版主编及英文评论版编辑。目前在英国从事卫生经济学领域的循证医疗传播工作。 朱珠，英国纽卡斯尔大学翻译学博士，现任英国爱丁堡大学亚洲学系中文教学主任，研究领域涉及翻译学、心理语言学...(展开全部)

Chinese rulers and statesmen were naturally concerned about the issue of war, when to wage it, when it was justified, and when to avoid it. Although much has been asserted about how these issues were understood in Chinese culture, this work is the first study actually to focus on the debates themselves. These debates at court proceeded from specific understandings of what const...(展开全部)

作者简介 奥兰多·费吉斯（Orlando Figes），英国人，生于1959年，剑桥大学三一学院博士，现任英国伦敦大学伯贝克学院历史学教授。俄国生活的方方面面，不论是文学艺术，还是政治经济，他都烂熟于心，无人能出其右。他的一系列解读沙俄及苏联历史的著作如《耳语者：斯大林时代苏联的私人生活》《娜塔莎之舞：俄罗斯文化史》等都取得了非凡的成就，是当今英语世界俄罗斯研究的一流大家。作品曾获沃尔夫森奖、NCR图书奖，并入围萨缪尔·约翰逊奖、达夫·库珀奖等，已被翻译成二十多种文字出版。 译者简介 吕品，香港科技大学细胞生物学博士，在英国学术、新闻及商业机构工作多年，曾担任英国《卫报》中文版主编及英文评论版编辑。目前在英国从事卫生经济学领域的循证医疗传播工作。 朱珠，英国纽卡斯尔大学翻译学博士，现任英国爱丁堡大学亚洲学系中文教学主任，研究领域涉及翻译学、心理语言学...(展开全部)

The State of Greece from the earliest Times to the Commencement of the Peloponnesian War THUCYDIDES, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out.汇聚授权电子版权。

Chinese rulers and statesmen were naturally concerned about the issue of war, when to wage it, when it was justified, and when to avoid it. Although much has been asserted about how these issues were understood in Chinese culture, this work is the first study actually to focus on the debates themselves. These debates at court proceeded from specific understandings of what const...(展开全部)

A bracing account of a war that lingers in our collective memory as both ambiguous and unjustly ignored For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953 that has long been overshadowed by World War II, Vietnam, and the War on Terror. But as Bruce Cumings eloquently explains, for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long fight that still haunts co...(展开全部)