An examination of the military doctrine that animated the French defense against the German invasion in 1940. Argues that the French learned the wrong lessons from World War I and were ill prepared for World War II Lessons for modern armies about how to learn from past wars and prepare for future wars Winner of the Paul Birdsall Prize of the American Historical Association

The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global free market has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting over the past few years, Naomi Klein introduced the term disaster capitalism. Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed s...(展开全部)

Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors. Thrilling and revelatory, "The Shock Doctrine" cracks open the secret history of our era. Exposing these global profiteers, Naomi Klein dis...(展开全部)

E.H. Carr's "Twenty Years' Crisis" is a classic work in international relations. Published in 1939, on the eve of World War II, it was immediately recognized by friend and foe alike as a defining work in the fledgling discipline. The author was one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals of the 20th century. The issues and themes he develops in this book continu...(展开全部)

E.H. Carr's "Twenty Years' Crisis" is a classic work in international relations. Published in 1939, on the eve of World War II, it was immediately recognized by friend and foe alike as a defining work in the fledgling discipline. The author was one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals of the 20th century. The issues and themes he develops in this book continu...(展开全部)

What happened to homosexuals during and after World War II has been described in other books; here, Florence Tamagne traces the different trends in Germany, England and France in the period leading up to that cataclysm and provides important background to any understanding of the later events. The period between the two world wars was crucial in the history of homosexuality in ...(展开全部)

E. H. Carr's classic work on international relations published in 1939 was immediately recognized by friend and foe alike as a defining work. The author was one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals of the 20th century. The issues and themes he developed continue to have relevance to modern day concerns with power and its distribution in the international syst...(展开全部)

巴里·艾肯格林（BarryEichengreen） 巴里·艾肯格林是加州大学伯克利分校政治科学教授和经济学教授，拥有JohnL.Simpson教席。美国国家经济研究局研究委员会成员。曾任国际货币基金组织的高级政策顾问，是美国人文与科学院院士，美国外交事务委员会成员，还是经济史学会会长，熊彼特奖得主。《外交政策》杂志评选的百位最重要公共智囊之一。

This is a reassessment of the international monetary crises of the post-World War I period, that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. It also analyzes the responses of the world's economic powers to the Depression and how new monetary policies set the stage for the watershed post-World War II system established at Bretton Woods. It offers new theories of what effect the Gr...(展开全部)

巴里·艾肯格林（BarryEichengreen） 巴里·艾肯格林是加州大学伯克利分校政治科学教授和经济学教授，拥有JohnL.Simpson教席。美国国家经济研究局研究委员会成员。曾任国际货币基金组织的高级政策顾问，是美国人文与科学院院士，美国外交事务委员会成员，还是经济史学会会长，熊彼特奖得主。《外交政策》杂志评选的百位最重要公共智囊之一。