商品簡介
Strategic history, as Gray (politics and international relations, U. of Reading, England) defines it, is the history of the influence of the use and threat of force on world politics. He presents this text as the first one-volume narrative description of strategic history from the late 18th century to the present. He supplements the narrative with supplementary chapters discussing themes and contexts, the general theory of war, warfare and terrorism as distinctive phenomena, the geography and technologies of war, the influence of changing international orders on strategic history, and continuities and discontinuities in modern strategic history. The chronological narrative begins with a Euro-centric focus but expands to more global concerns and events as it unfolds. Annotation Ac2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Colin S. Gray is Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading, UK. He has published twenty-five books and innumerable journal articles.
