Carnage and Culture

副标题: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power

ISBN: 9780385720380

出版社: Anchor

出版年: 2002-8-27

页数: 544

定价: USD 17.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive--Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world.

Looking beyond popular explanations such as geography or superior technology, Hanson argues that it is in fact Western culture and values–the tradition of dissent, the value placed on inventiveness and adaptation, the concept of citizenship–which have consistently produced superior arms and soldiers. Offering riveting battle narratives and a balanced perspective that avoids simple triumphalism, Carnage and Culture demonstrates how armies cannot be separated from the cultures that produce them and explains why an army produced by a free culture will always have the advantage.

作者简介

维克托·戴维斯·汉森，军事历史学家，加利福尼亚州立大学弗雷斯诺校区古典文化学教授。傅翀，毕业于浙江大学。除译有《杀戮与文化》一书外，目前正在翻译乔纳森·萨姆欣（Jonathan Sumption）的《百年战争》（The Hundred Years War）一书。吴昕欣，毕业于浙江大学外语学院，现从事版权引进工作。

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