Review "This book traces the processes that resulted in military strategies in 17 cases, ranging from ancient Greece and Rome to American nuclear strategy...Each essay is self-contained, and academics searching for brief but expert analyses of strategic case studies for teaching purposes will welcome this book." Foreign Affairs "...the essays, including those on Israel and the ...(展开全部)

In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in tragicomedy, The Opium War explores the disastrous British foreign-relations move that became a founding myth of modern Chinese nationalism, and depicts China’s hero...(展开全部)

Conventional wisdom argues that welfare state builders in the US and Sweden in the 1930s took their cues from labor and labor movements. "Capitalists Against Markets" makes the startling argument that pragmatic social reformers looked for support not only from below but also from above, taking into account capitalist interests and preferences. Juxtaposing two widely recognized ...(展开全部)

An engaging, highly readable, character-driven account of the war that transformed China, and which continues to loom large over modern Chinese history. In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in tragicomedy,...(展开全部)

作者：蓝诗玲（Julia Lovell)，现为英国伦敦大学伯贝克学院讲师，教授中国近代史、中国文学；已出版数种与中国近代历史相关的著作，且以英文翻译了鲁迅、张爱玲、朱文、韩少功、阎连科等中国作家的部分作品；现在正致力于研究毛泽东思想的全球史，并重译《西游记》（节译本）。 译者：刘悦斌，中国近代史研究专家、教授；在各类专业期刊发表论文60余篇，出版专著数种，并翻译出版《朋友•客人•同事——晚清的幕府制度》（合译）、《寻求中国民主》（合译）等著作。

"Read this slim and seductively informative book and recommend it to friends who are not China specialists."—Asia Media "MacKinnon's study of Wuhan during its service as China's wartime capital not only fills an important gap in the history of China's war with Japan, but enriches this history through an artful combination of military, political, social and cultural perspectives...(展开全部)

弗雷德里克•罗格瓦尔（FredrikLogevall），哈佛大学国际事务研究中心劳伦斯•D.贝尔弗教授(the Laurence D.Belfer Professor),同时在肯尼迪政府学院和历史系任职。他有9部作品，本书获普利策图书奖。弗雷德里克的随笔和评论文章经常被刊登在《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《洛杉矶时报》，以及《政治家》《每日野兽》《外交事务》上。他出生于瑞典斯德哥尔摩，曾是美国对外关系历史学家协会主席，以及美国外交关系委员会以及美国历史学家协会成员。弗雷德里克现住在美国马萨诸塞州的坎布里奇。

“This extraordinary work of modern history combines powerful narrative thrust, deep scholarly authority, and quiet interpretive confidence.”—Francis Parkman Prize citation “A balanced, deeply researched history of how, as French colonial rule faltered, a succession of American leaders moved step by step down a road toward full-blown war.”—Pulitzer Prize citation “Fredrik Logev...(展开全部)

弗雷德里克•罗格瓦尔（FredrikLogevall），哈佛大学国际事务研究中心劳伦斯•D.贝尔弗教授(the Laurence D.Belfer Professor),同时在肯尼迪政府学院和历史系任职。他有9部作品，本书获普利策图书奖。弗雷德里克的随笔和评论文章经常被刊登在《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《洛杉矶时报》，以及《政治家》《每日野兽》《外交事务》上。他出生于瑞典斯德哥尔摩，曾是美国对外关系历史学家协会主席，以及美国外交关系委员会以及美国历史学家协会成员。弗雷德里克现住在美国马萨诸塞州的坎布里奇。

迈克尔·J.克拉曼（Michael J.Klarman） 著名宪法史专家、哈佛大学法学院终身教授。著有《从种族隔离到民权运动：最高法院与种族平等的抗争》（From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality，2005年班克罗夫特奖获奖图书），《从柜子到祭坛：法庭、抵制和同性婚姻的抗争》（From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage），《利益的天平》（The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution）等。