Authors:Professor Jeremy Black, Jeremy Black,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: warfare, history, european
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2006-05-22
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 185728173X
ISBN-13: 9781857281736

This is a history of warfare, wars and the armed forces of Europe from the military revolution of the mid-17th century to the Napoleonic wars.; This book is intended for broad-based undergrad courses on 18th century Europe/Britain and the Ancien Regime. 2nd and 3rd year thematic courses on warfare in the modern period, and students of war studies.

中文参考译名:18世纪的英国，1688年至1783年（帕尔格雷夫英国史）
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: britain, history, palgrave, eighteenth, century
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 0230537502
ISBN-13: 9780230537507

Jeremy Black sets the politics of eighteenth century Britain into the fascinating context of social, economic, cultural, religious and scientific developments. The second edition of this successful text by a leading authority in the field has now been updated and expanded to incorporate the latest research and scholarship.Book DescriptionThis, the first volume in the new Palgrave History of Britain series, is a tour de force. Jeremy Black builds a picture of eighteenth-century society and polity distinguished by its range, diversity of example, and engaging freshness of style. Students will fi

中文参考译名:反思军事历史
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: history, military, rethinking
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-10-28
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0415275342
ISBN-13: 9780415275347

Rethinking Military History is a bold new ’thought book’ that reconsiders military history at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The chapters provide a valuable and concise survey of the main themes in the study of military history from 1500 to the present day as Jeremy Black reveals the main trends in the practice and approach to military history and proposes a new manifesto for the subject to move forward.This must-read study demonstrates the limitations of current approaches, including common generalizations, omissions, and over-simplications. Engaging theoretical discu

中文参考译名:作者：不列颠群岛历史
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: isles, british, history
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2003-02-08
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 1403900434
ISBN-13: 9781403900432

From the earliest pre-history to the present day, Jeremy Black’s vigorous and fascinating narrative explores the rich historical influence of the British Isles and the varied stages through which they have passed to achieve their present identity. Giving proper weight to all four, often fractious, components of the British Isles, Black provides the reader with a balanced and absorbing account--political, social, economic, and cultural--of an extraordinary shared history. In the second edition of this highly successful text, each chapter has been thoroughly revised and updated in the ligh

中文参考译名:地图和政治
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: politics, maps
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2000-12-01
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0226054942
ISBN-13: 9780226054940

Do maps accurately and objectively present the information we expect them to portray, or are they instead colored by the political purposes of their makers? In this lively and well-illustrated book, Jeremy Black investigates this dangerous territory, arguing persuasively that the supposed "objectivity" of the map-making and map-using process cannot be divorced from aspects of the politics of representation.

Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, illustrated, revolution, atlases, warfare, atlas, renaissance
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1996-05-31
List price: $75.99
ISBN-10: 0521470331
ISBN-13: 9780521470339

The three centuries following the discovery of the New World was a period of unprecedented global expansion, spearheaded by the lusty armies of the imperial European powers. This volume of The Cambridge Illustrated Atlases of Warfare is a lively and elaborately illustrated study of warfare during the early modern period, ranging from the European Renaissance to the American Revolution. Unique color maps and authoritative text illuminate the major military and naval developments that characterized the period. Feature boxes describe key events, important military confrontations, individual tac

中文参考译名:一种品味科目：在18世纪的英国文化
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Hambledon & London
Keywords: century, england, eighteenth, culture, taste, subject
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-02
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1852855347
ISBN-13: 9781852855345

In the eighteenth century, England became the richest and most powerful country in the world. This is a rounded portrait of English culture in the eighteenth century. Not only a matter of leading writers, from Swift and Pope to Dr. Johnson and Sheridan, and of artists from Hogarth to Reynolds, there was also room for popular ballads, political doggerel, pornographic verse and vigorous satirical cartoons. Taste in architecture ranged from great houses with gardens landscaped by Capability Brown to the changed use of domestic space in towns. Jeremy Black looks at both the wealth of cultural acti