Jeremy Black, Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the Present Day, London and New York: Routledge, fourth edition, 2025.

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关于作者

Jeremy Black is author of numerous books, including A Brief History of History, Tank Warfare and Charting the Past: The Historical Worlds of Eighteenth-Century England. He is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Exeter and a Senior Fellow of both the British Foreign Policy Group and of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Black is a recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History. Follow Black on his website, jeremyblackhistorian.wordpress.com.

杰里米·布莱克是众多著作的作者，包括《简明历史学史》、《坦克战》和《描绘过去：18世纪英格兰的历史世界》。他是埃克塞特大学的荣誉退休历史学教授，也是英国外交政策研究小组和外交政策研究所的高级研究员。布莱克获得了军事史学会颁发的塞缪尔·艾略特·莫里森奖。欢迎在他的网站jeremyblackhistorian.wordpress.com上关注布莱克。

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关于本书

Now in its fourth edition, Introduction to Global Military History is an accessible, up-to-date account of modern warfare from the eighteenth century to the present.

The book engages with the social, cultural, political and economic contexts of war, examining the causes and consequences of conflict beyond national and chronological boundaries. It challenges the dominant Western-centric, technologically focused view of military history and instead emphasises the ranges of circumstances faced by both Western and non-Western powers and the absence of any one direction of development. The chapters present integrated discussions of land, naval and air conflicts, addressing continuities and the ways in which common experiences affected different spheres. This edition revises the text throughout, has increased focus on the developments of the 2000s and 2010s, and adds a new chapter on the 2020s.

Supported by a variety of illustrations, maps and case studies, this study is a valuable resource for students of military history and general readers alike.

《全球军事史概论》现已出到第四版，是一部论述从18世纪到现在的现代战争的通俗易懂、与时俱进的著作。

本书探讨了战争的社会、文化、政治和经济背景，跨越国家和时间界限，研究了冲突的起因和后果。它挑战了以西方为中心、侧重技术的军事史主流观点，而是强调西方和非西方国家所面临的各种情况，以及发展方向的多样性。各章节综合讨论了陆、海、空冲突，阐述了连续性以及共同经历如何影响不同领域。本版全面修订了文本，更加关注21世纪前20年的发展，并新增了一章讨论2020年代。

本研究配有多种插图、地图和案例研究，是军事史学生和普通读者的宝贵资源。