Under the later Stuarts, England became a major European military power, English armies and navies grew to an unprecedented size, civilian administration burgeoned and taxation, public borrowing and spending on war reached new heights. This work examines the causes of the emergence in England of this fiscal-military state and the features which distinguished it from European po...(展开全部)

Under the later Stuarts, England became a major European military power, English armies and navies grew to an unprecedented size, civilian administration burgeoned and taxation, public borrowing and spending on war reached new heights. This work examines the causes of the emergence in England of this fiscal-military state and the features which distinguished it from European po...(展开全部)

Through the pioneering efforts of the famed British anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard, the Nuer of southern Sudan have become one of anthropology's most celebrated case studies. Now Sharon Hutchinson combines fresh ethnographic evidence and contemporary theoretical perspectives to show not only what has happened to the Nuer since their 1930s encounters with Evans-Pritchard, ...(展开全部)

作者简介 谢尔登·D.波拉克（Sheldon D.Pollack），特拉华大学法律研究项目主任、教授。他拥有宾夕法尼亚大学法学院法学学位和康奈尔大学政治学博士学位，著有《美国再融资：共和党抗税议程》（Refinancing America： The Republican Antitax Agenda、和《美国税收政策的失败：收入与政治》（The Failure of U.S. Tax Policy：Revenue and Politics）。 译者简介 李婉，1980年3月出生，浙江省瑞安市人，上海财经大学财政学博士，2008年起任教于上海立信会计金融学院，研究领域为中国财税体制与税收制度。

作者简介 谢尔登·D.波拉克（Sheldon D.Pollack），特拉华大学法律研究项目主任、教授。他拥有宾夕法尼亚大学法学院法学学位和康奈尔大学政治学博士学位，著有《美国再融资：共和党抗税议程》（Refinancing America： The Republican Antitax Agenda、和《美国税收政策的失败：收入与政治》（The Failure of U.S. Tax Policy：Revenue and Politics）。 译者简介 李婉，1980年3月出生，浙江省瑞安市人，上海财经大学财政学博士，2008年起任教于上海立信会计金融学院，研究领域为中国财税体制与税收制度。

Military power and conflict have fuelled economic growth throughout history. Money matters to the military; it is needed to finance war and the desire to acquire it is often the motive for fighting. This book examines the interaction of economics and conflict, explaining the economic concepts used, and illustrating them with a range of military examples, both contemporary and h...(展开全部)