18世纪的战争冲突Warfare in the Eighteenth Century

1999-12  

中央广播电视大学出版社  

Jeremy Black 著  

224  

　　In 1757 Alaung-hpaya stormed Pegu, uniting Burma under his rule. In the same year Frederick the Great of Prussia, fighting in what came to be known as the Seven Years War, defeated his French and Austrian opponents at Rossbach and Leuthen respectively. Both were important campaigns in the history of eighteenth-century warfare. Both are covered in this important and wide-ranging narrative by a leading authority in early modern warfare, which presents a full and fascinating picture of war both in Europe and elsewhere in the world at this time.　　In eighteenth-century Europe warfare was widespread. Armies fought with flintlocks and bayonets, and in conflicts such as the Wars of European Succession and the Seven Years War success generally lay in speed and decisiveness. The tactical innovations of European leaders such as Marlborough and Frederick the Great made them figures who are still renowned today.　　Yet the most successful military power in the world at the time was not European but Chinese, the largest land battles of the century occurring not in Prussia but in India. In 1717 Dsungar horsemen invaded Tibet and began the expansion of China to its greatest ever geographical extent. Between 1725 and 1745 the Afghan leader Nadir Shah invaded Persia and India using cavalry and camel-mounted swivel guns. And on the North American frontiers Native Americans were defeated through the settlers' economic superiority and weight of numbers.　　In this refreshingly non-Eurocentric book,Jeremy Black examines warfare on a global scale at a time when the face of war was beginning to change. He describes new technology, from the introduction of the socket bayonet to the invention of the elevating screw for cannon. He covers innovations such as the guerrilla tactics that defeated the British in the American War of Independence. And he describes in detail the changes in ideology that led to the French Revolution, a conflict that was to have effects lasting well into the next century.

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at Exeter. After graduating with a starred first from Cambridge, he ndertook research at Oxford before joining the staff at Durham University, where he eventually became a Professor. Editor of Archives and a Council member of the Royal Historical Society, the British Records Association and the Army Records Society, Jeremy Black has lectured widely in the USA, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, France, Italy, Germany and Denmark, and he has held visiting chairs in the USA. His thirty books include Maps and History, War and the World 1450-2000, Why Wars Happen, Maps and Politics, A History of the British Isles, and War for America.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSMAP LISTCHRONOLOGYINTRODUCTIONS: WARFARE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY1 WAR WITHOUT EUROPEANS2 EUROPEANS VERSUS NON-EOROPEANS3 TRANSOCEANIC CONFLICT BETWEEN EUROPEANS4 THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE5 NAVAL WARFARE6 WAR WITHIN EUROPE7 THE COMING OF REVOLUTIONCONCLUSION: THE WORLD PICTURESOME LEADING COMMANDERSFURTHER READINGINDESPICTURE CREDITS

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中午拿到的书，已经看了一些。非常棒的一本书，采用精装封皮，里面有大量彩图，对历史及战争进程的介绍详实生动，涵盖了东西方各文明的战争冲突。本书的专业性较强，其中出现大量人名、地名，适合英语水平较高或对这段历史有所了解的朋友阅读。

纯英文的书，纸质很好，有插图，硬壳封面。但是此书比较薄，感觉厚度与价钱不符。主要拿来学英文，所以对其内容的科学性无法评论。