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.
維克托·戴維斯·漢森，軍事曆史學家，加利福尼亞州立大學弗雷斯諾校區古典文化學教授。傅翀，畢業於浙江大學。除譯有《殺戮與文化》一書外，目前正在翻譯喬納森·薩姆欣（Jonathan Sumption）的《百年戰爭》（The Hundred Years War）一書。吳昕欣，畢業於浙江大學外語學院，現從事版權引進工作。
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.
維克托·戴維斯·漢森，軍事曆史學家，加利福尼亞州立大學弗雷斯諾校區古典文化學教授。傅翀，畢業於浙江大學。除譯有《殺戮與文化》一書外，目前正在翻譯喬納森·薩姆欣（Jonathan Sumption）的《百年戰爭》（The Hundred Years War）一書。吳昕欣，畢業於浙江大學外語學院，現從事版權引進工作。
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