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)

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。

Color coded terror alerts, invasion, drone war, rampant surveillance: all manifestations of the type of new power Brian Massumi theorizes in Ontopower. Through an in-depth examination of the War on Terror and the culture of crisis, Massumi identifies the emergence of preemption, which he characterizes as the operative logic of our time. Security threats, regardless of the exist...(展开全部)

屈威廉（1876-1962），英国近现代著名史学家。毕业于剑桥大学。1927-1940年主持剑桥近代史讲座，1940年起任剑桥三一学院院长。1950年被选为杜伦大学校长，任职至1958年。著有《英国社会史》、《威克利夫时代的英格兰》、《改革法案的格雷爵士》、《19世纪英国史，1782-1901》、《英国兰史》、《威廉四世的七年》、《英国革命1688-1689》等。 宋晓东，北京大学历史学博士，石河子大学历史系青年教师。主讲世界史，致力于英国史研究。

At the close of the Second World War, Mises saw the destruction of the old world and the beginnings of a new one that did not look promising, especially for European politics. Socialism appeared to sweep all before it, and the social democratic variety in the West was not much of an improvement. Mises set out to explain and bitterly denounce the trends toward the total state, a...(展开全部)

In straightforward prose that doesn't mystify art or deny its special allure, prominent art dealer and market expert Michael Findlay offers a close up and personal view of almost 50 years in the business of art. He engagingly explains art's three kinds of value: commercial; social; and what he terms its essential value - the range of responses to art that we as individuals have...(展开全部)

The state, which since the middle of the seventeenth century has been the most important and most characteristic of all modern institutions, is in decline. From Western Europe to Africa, many existing states are either combining into larger communities or falling apart. Many of their functions are being taken over by a variety of organizations which, whatever their precise natu...(展开全部)