Designed for use at the college level as a textbook for military history courses or supplemental reading for world history courses, this text offers an introduction and original synthesis of global military history. Each chapter traces key developments in military institutions and practices set in three crucial contexts: politics and institutions; social structures and economic...(展开全部)

The China Society for People's Friendship Studies (PFS) in cooperation with the Foreign Languages Press (FLP)in Beijing has arranged for re-publication, in the series entitled light on China, of some fifty books written in English between the 1860s and the founding years of the People's Republic, by journalistic and other sympathetic eyewitnesses of the revolutionary events des...(展开全部)

The best-selling account of World War II in every theater of operations by the foremost military analyst of our time. The late Captain Basil Liddell Hart's private library and famous and voluminous archives of personal correspondence with such giants as Lloyd George and Churchill; the notes of the detailed interviews which he conducted after the war with the captured German gen...(展开全部)

From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the world We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Bancro...(展开全部)

作者：文安立（Odd Arne Westad） 挪威歷史學家，現居美國康乃迪克州紐黑文，主要研究冷戰史和當代東亞史。現為耶魯大學歷史和全球事務伊利胡（Elihu）講座教授。 代表作包括《躁動的帝國：從清帝國的普世主義，到中國的民族主義，一部250年的中國對外關係史》（Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750）、《緩和的衰落：卡特時代下的美國—蘇維埃關係》（The Fall of Détente: Soviet-American Relations During the Carter Years）、《決定性交會：中國內戰1945-1950》（Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1945-1950）、《全球冷戰：對第三世界的干預與我們時代的形成》（T...(展开全部)

'Odd Arne Westad's daring ambition, supra-nationalist intellect, polyglot sources, masterly scholarship and trenchant analysis make The Cold War a book ofresounding importance for appraising our global future as well as understanding our past' Richard Davenport-Hines, TLS, Books of the Year As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and...(展开全部)

作者：文安立（Odd Arne Westad） 挪威歷史學家，現居美國康乃迪克州紐黑文，主要研究冷戰史和當代東亞史。現為耶魯大學歷史和全球事務伊利胡（Elihu）講座教授。 代表作包括《躁動的帝國：從清帝國的普世主義，到中國的民族主義，一部250年的中國對外關係史》（Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750）、《緩和的衰落：卡特時代下的美國—蘇維埃關係》（The Fall of Détente: Soviet-American Relations During the Carter Years）、《決定性交會：中國內戰1945-1950》（Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1945-1950）、《全球冷戰：對第三世界的干預與我們時代的形成》（T...(展开全部)

The best-selling account of World War II in every theater of operations by the foremost military analyst of our time. The late Captain Basil Liddell Hart's private library and famous and voluminous archives of personal correspondence with such giants as Lloyd George and Churchill; the notes of the detailed interviews which he conducted after the war with the captured German gen...(展开全部)

Chinese rulers and statesmen were naturally concerned about the issue of war, when to wage it, when it was justified, and when to avoid it. Although much has been asserted about how these issues were understood in Chinese culture, this work is the first study actually to focus on the debates themselves. These debates at court proceeded from specific understandings of what const...(展开全部)

A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders, including pre-modern Europe, the Middle East, and China. In Central Asia in World History, Peter B. Golden provid...(展开全部)