Sunil S. Amrith is Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies and Professor of History at Harvard University, and a 2017 MacArthur Fellow.
The Indian Ocean was global long before the Atlantic, and today the countries bordering the Bay of Bengal--India, Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Malaysia--are home to one in four people on Earth. "Crossing the Bay of Bengal" places this region at the heart of world history for the first time. Integrating human and environmental history, and mining a wealth of sources, Sunil Amrith gives a revelatory and stirring new account of the Bay and those who have inhabited it. For centuries the Bay of Bengal served as a maritime highway between India and China, and then as a battleground for European empires, all while being shaped by the monsoons and by human migration. Imperial powers in the nineteenth century, abetted by the force of capital and the power of steam, reconfigured the Bay in their quest for coffee, rice, and rubber. Millions of Indian migrants crossed the sea, bound by debt or spurred by drought, and filled with ambition. Booming port cities like Singapore and Penang became the most culturally diverse societies of their time. By the 1930s, however, economic, political, and environmental pressures began to erode the Bay's centuries-old patterns of interconnection. Today, rising waters leave the Bay of Bengal's shores especially vulnerable to climate change, at the same time that its location makes it central to struggles over Asia's future. Amrith's evocative and compelling narrative of the region's pasts offers insights critical to understanding and confronting the many challenges facing Asia in the decades ahead.
(本文僅為讀後感,許多地方有待查證) 花瞭半個月時間讀完瞭這本竪排繁體的颱版書,第一印象是該書與我的想象有些偏差,這大概是我沒有很好地理解題目所緻。“橫渡孟加拉灣”講的是一個宏大的移民故事,一個從早期的零零散散,到葡萄牙、法國乃至英國殖民時期的成規模,到二戰...
評分[https://theinitium.com/article/20180814-opinion-bookinterview-sunil/] 江懷哲(江懷哲,說書 Speaking of Books 編輯委員、颱灣亞洲交流基金會研究助理) 一個東北亞中心的亞洲史必然不斷在幾個尚未解決的衝突上繞迴圈,儘管這些衝突很重要也影響我們生活至深,但若我們開...
評分[https://theinitium.com/article/20180814-opinion-bookinterview-sunil/] 江懷哲(江懷哲,說書 Speaking of Books 編輯委員、颱灣亞洲交流基金會研究助理) 一個東北亞中心的亞洲史必然不斷在幾個尚未解決的衝突上繞迴圈,儘管這些衝突很重要也影響我們生活至深,但若我們開...
評分[https://theinitium.com/article/20180814-opinion-bookinterview-sunil/] 江懷哲(江懷哲,說書 Speaking of Books 編輯委員、颱灣亞洲交流基金會研究助理) 一個東北亞中心的亞洲史必然不斷在幾個尚未解決的衝突上繞迴圈,儘管這些衝突很重要也影響我們生活至深,但若我們開...
評分這本書猶如一份標齣孟加拉灣輪廓的綱要,囊括瞭此區域內的生活、人民、文化和思想,內容廣泛而豐富。可能是第一本關注孟加拉灣的文化、政治和經濟的曆史專著,在此之前,孟加拉灣在印度洋曆史上普遍受到冷落。全書以通俗易懂的風格寫成,並夾雜著作者拍攝的照片,既能吸引印度...
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评分像一部百科全書地介紹瞭孟加拉灣沿岸地區的移民、宗教與政治相關的曆史。在國內很少有關於東南亞華人的書籍,而這一部不僅講述瞭華人的移民曆史,更重要的揭示瞭民族主義在近代興起在這些移民國傢的影響。豆瓣裏唯一的評論,估計沒怎麼讀書吧。這書就寫的孟加拉灣,有必要寫中國南海的事情麼?也根本沒怎麼提這裏的重要性。
评分像一部百科全書地介紹瞭孟加拉灣沿岸地區的移民、宗教與政治相關的曆史。在國內很少有關於東南亞華人的書籍,而這一部不僅講述瞭華人的移民曆史,更重要的揭示瞭民族主義在近代興起在這些移民國傢的影響。豆瓣裏唯一的評論,估計沒怎麼讀書吧。這書就寫的孟加拉灣,有必要寫中國南海的事情麼?也根本沒怎麼提這裏的重要性。
评分像一部百科全書地介紹瞭孟加拉灣沿岸地區的移民、宗教與政治相關的曆史。在國內很少有關於東南亞華人的書籍,而這一部不僅講述瞭華人的移民曆史,更重要的揭示瞭民族主義在近代興起在這些移民國傢的影響。豆瓣裏唯一的評論,估計沒怎麼讀書吧。這書就寫的孟加拉灣,有必要寫中國南海的事情麼?也根本沒怎麼提這裏的重要性。
评分有些淺顯,也有些史料細節上選取略隨意的問題,但讀來確實很愉快,環境與關聯的視角也確實能有所啓發。
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