Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age

War cannot be controlled in future without an understanding of its past. These essays analyse war, its strategic characteristics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries.

Science & Math

Felix Gilbert

Technology

Oxford University Press

The End of the European Era

WW Norton & Co.

“It is precisely with the emergence of history as we know it today that Professor Gilbert’s important book is concerned. . . . Instead of treating these two great figures in isolation, Professor Gilbert puts them into the context of their times, into the stream of political thinking and historical writing of which they were a part. . . .His book is the fruit of years of writing of which they were a part. . . .His book is the fruit of years of original research among Florentine archives and of careful thought about the problems of Renaissance politics and historiography.” ―F.A. Yates, New York Times Review of Books In Felix Gilbert’s skilled analysis, the figures of Niccolo Machiavelli, whose writing changed the way people think about politics, and Francesco Guicciardini, whose History of Italy is one of the first classics of modern historical writing, provide important clues to interpreting the Renaissance.

Machiavelli and Guicciardini: Politics and History in Sixteenth Century Florence

History

Americas

W.W.Norton&Company

This third edition brings fully up to date the leading text in twentieth-century European history. The last three chapters of this new edition focus much more closely on the years of abundance in Western Europe and de-Stalinization in Eastern Europe (the mid-1950's through the mid 1960's), the student revolts of the late 1960's, the crisis in Czechozlovakia, the spread of terrorism and the emergence of Eurocommunism, the impact of the oil crisis int the early 1970's, the rise and fall of detente, the crisis in Poland, and the current controversy over arms control and the installation of nuclear weapons in Europe. In a thoughtful Epilogue Professor Gilbert assesses the reduced but still crucial position Europe has come to occupy in the world. (from the back cover) The front cover has 1 crease, and some of the first pages show also. No marks in text and normal aging otherwise.

The end of the European era, 1890 to the present (The Norton history of modern Europe)

Europe

Machiavelli e Guicciardini. Pensiero politico e storiografia a Firenze nel Cinquecento

Einaudi

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