The Delhi Sultanate was the first Islamic state to be established in India. In a broad-ranging, accessible narrative, Peter Jackson traces the history of the Sultanate from its foundation in 1210 to its demise in 1400 at the sack of Delhi by the Central Asian conqueror, Tamerlane. During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Sultanate was the principal bastion of Islam i...(展开全部)

The Mamluk Sultanate ruled Egypt, Syria and the Arabian hinterland along the Red Sea. Lasting from the deposition of the Ayyubid dynasty (c. 1250) to the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517, this regime of slave-soldiers incorporated many of the political structures and cultural traditions of its Fatimid and Ayyubid predecessors. Yet its system of governance and centralisation of...(展开全部)

The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. Their history is suffused with crusading, campaigning and struggle. Feared by their enemies but respected by medieval Christendom, the knights and their Order maintained a firm hold over the Baltic and northern Germany and established a formidable regime which flourished across Central Europe for 300 years....(展开全部)

[俄罗斯] 叶卡捷琳娜·普拉维洛娃，普林斯顿大学历史系教授，俄罗斯、东欧和欧亚研究项目主任。所著图书《公共帝国:俄罗斯帝国的财产和对共同利益的追求》《合法性和个人权利:俄罗斯的行政司法》《帝国的财政:俄罗斯帝国边境政策中的金钱和权力》((以俄文出版)屡获殊荣。

The untold political story of the most controversial consumer product in American history. Tobacco is the quintessential American product. From Jamestown to the Marlboro Man, the plant occupied the heart of the nation’s economy and expressed its enduring myths. But today smoking rates have declined and smokers are exiled from many public spaces. The story of tobacco’s fortunes ...(展开全部)

“Vaping gets all the attention now, but Milov’s thorough study reminds us that smoking has always intersected with the government, for better or worse.”—The New York Times Book Review “An impressive work of scholarship evincing years of spadework… A well-told story.”—The Wall Street Journal “A nuanced and ultimately devastating indictment of government complicity with the worst...(展开全部)

Clausewitz is often quoted but more often misunderstood. On Clausewitz presents his central ideas about war and politics--such as war as an instrument of policy, the concept of Absolute War, friction and the fog of war--in a clear and systematic fashion. It also presents the man, his life and the military and intellectual environment in which he produced his great work On War. ...(展开全部)

休·史密斯（Hugh Smith），在澳大利亚担任军官学员教官三十多年；澳大利亚国防研究中心创会理事，国防科学院、南威尔士大学、大学学院、人文与社会科学学院等多家研究机构研究员；与人合编《太平洋制海权》，并独立编有《战略家》一书。

Mongolia remains a beautiful barren land of spectacularly clothed horse-riders, nomadic romance and windswept landscape. But modern Mongolia is now caught between two giants: China and Russia; and known to be home to enormous mineral resources they are keen to exploit. China is expanding economically into the region, buying up mining interests and strengthening its control over...(展开全部)

In this strikingly original treatment of the rise of the novel, Nancy Armstrong argues that the novels and non- fiction written by and for women in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England paved the way for the rise of the modern English middle class. Most critical studies of the novel mistakenly locate political power exclusively in the official institutions of state, ignori...(展开全部)