約翰·達爾文的興趣在於帝國的曆史,既包括它們的興起,也包括它們的衰落。他寫瞭大量關於英帝國衰落的文章,他如今在劍橋教授帝國史和全球史,是納菲爾德學院的研究員。
Was Europe's domination of the modern international order the inevitable rise of a superior civilization or the piratical hijacking of an evolving world system? A little of both, and a lot of neither, this ambitious comparative study argues—because world history's real center of gravity sits in Eurasia. Historian Darwin (The End of the British Empire) contends that an ascendant Western imperialism was a sideshow to vast, wealthy and dynamic Asian empires—in China, Mughal India, the Ottoman Middle East and Safavid Iran—which proved resistant to Western encroachment and shaped the world into the 21st century. Europe's overseas colonial empires as well as the expansions of the United States across North America and Russia across Siberia—was not inevitable, but rather a slow, fitful and often marginal enterprise that didn't accelerate until the mid-19th century. Darwin analyzes the technological, organizational and economic advantages Europeans accrued over time, but shows how dependent their success was on the vagaries of world trade (the driving force of modern imperialism, in his account) and the internal politics of the countries they tried to control. Nicely balanced between sweeping overview and illuminating detail, this lucid survey complicates and deepens our understanding of modern world history.
發表於2025-02-02
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一直不明白到底是哪些人在做翻譯呢?專業書籍翻譯不好,那可能是因為專業水平不到位。這種文學曆史類文章翻譯不好不好,恐怕是翻譯的人中文水平太差。 看瞭一下書評,有人說比第一版翻譯的好一些。但是翻下來還是覺得非常難讀。所以開捲有益還是拿幾段文字記錄一下。 有些人倒...
評分看看書後的reference就知道瞭 都不容易! 是本好書,不過單獨此書可能不會有太大結論。 。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。...
評分這本書前些時候跟著作者約翰‧達爾文的新書再版瞭,我這纔想到當年有跟著熱潮買迴傢,卻怎麼也迴憶不起它的內容任何一絲印象。於是拿來重新看瞭看,翻瞭前麵幾章之後就直接跳結論瞭。 簡單來說,就是廣而不精。時代拉的很長,似乎是想麵麵俱到,不過仔細看瞭一下嘛,作者就...
評分這本書前些時候跟著作者約翰‧達爾文的新書再版瞭,我這纔想到當年有跟著熱潮買迴傢,卻怎麼也迴憶不起它的內容任何一絲印象。於是拿來重新看瞭看,翻瞭前麵幾章之後就直接跳結論瞭。 簡單來說,就是廣而不精。時代拉的很長,似乎是想麵麵俱到,不過仔細看瞭一下嘛,作者就...
評分圖書標籤: 曆史 history 世界史 Empire 帝國史 History 艷情史派 國際關係
The intense ideological storms that swept over the world for most of the twentieth century made an open society into a gamble with fate.
評分The intense ideological storms that swept over the world for most of the twentieth century made an open society into a gamble with fate.
評分Extremely writtern
評分The intense ideological storms that swept over the world for most of the twentieth century made an open society into a gamble with fate.
評分單從讀者的角度來說讀得太痛苦。部分論證不太讓人信服。
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