CHARLES EMMERSON was born in Australia and grew up in London. After graduating top of his class in Modern History from Oxford University he took up an Entente Cordiale scholarship to study international relations and international public law in Paris. The author of The Future History of the Arctic (2010), he writes and speaks widely on international affairs. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House (the Royal Institute for International Affairs).
Forever in the shadow of the war which followed, 1913 is usually seen as little more than the antechamber to apocalypse. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features - last summers in grand aristocratic residences, a flurry of extravagant social engagements - or its most destructive ones: the unresolved rivalries of the great European powers, the anxieties of a period of accelerated change, the social fear of revolution, the violence in the Balkans. Our images of the times are too often dominated by the faded pastels of upper-class indulgence or by the unmitigated blackness of a world rushing headlong into the abyss of an inevitable war.
1913: The World before the Great War proposes a strikingly different portrait, returning the world in that year to its contemporary freshness, its future still undecided, its outlook still open. Told through the stories of twenty-three cities - Europe's capitals at the height of their global reach, the emerging metropolises of America, the imperial cities of Asia and Africa, the boomtowns of Australia and the Americas - Charles Emmerson presents a panoramic view of a world crackling with possibilities, from St Petersburg to Shanghai and from Los Angeles to Jerusalem.
What emerges is a rich and complex world, more familiar than we expect, connected as never before, on the threshold of events which would change the course of global history.
發表於2024-12-23
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文/吳情 1913年,第一次世界大戰爆發的前一年。按教科書的說法,從自由資本主義走嚮壟斷資本主義,這場戰爭,根本無可避免。在大眾的想象中,戰前的一年,應該“山雨欲來風滿樓”,各國之間的軍備競賽此起彼伏,外交關係動輒斷裂,各資本主義國傢躍躍欲試,希冀從戰爭中得到自...
評分1913年,於我們而言,是一戰爆發前的一年。我們自然會好奇那一年的境況如何,又是怎樣醞釀齣瞭史無前例的世界大戰的驚濤駭浪。 1913年,對於生活在當時的人而言,卻隻是又一個邁嚮未來的一年。1913年最後一天的《每日紀事報》上,剋拉倫斯·魯剋寫道:“在這個年關,世界似乎翻...
評分1.頁2行19:“美國”應為“美洲”。 2.頁74行3:“酒館”應為“咖啡館”。 3.頁118行10:“存局侯領”應為“存局候領”。 4.頁137行27:“弗拉迪米爾”應為“弗拉基米爾”。 5.頁147行14:“紐約上州”應為“紐約北部”。 6.頁163行20(以及頁181):“哈珀周刊”應為“哈潑斯...
評分1913年,於我們而言,是一戰爆發前的一年。我們自然會好奇那一年的境況如何,又是怎樣醞釀齣瞭史無前例的世界大戰的驚濤駭浪。 1913年,對於生活在當時的人而言,卻隻是又一個邁嚮未來的一年。1913年最後一天的《每日紀事報》上,剋拉倫斯·魯剋寫道:“在這個年關,世界似乎翻...
評分眾所周知,兩次世界大戰均給全世界人民帶來瞭深重災難,是人類曆史上不可抹去的慘痛經曆。其中第一次世界大戰耗時四年多,涉及三十多個國傢的15億人口,難以想象它對人類造成瞭多大的物質和精神損害。一切都是從一場預謀已久的刺殺開始,也就是著名的“薩拉熱窩事件”,發生在...
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