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.
發表於2024-12-23
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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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sketches on mapping different processes that shaped/ have been shaping the space/ borderworld 其中的process涵蓋從個體到國傢 從物質環境到人類群體的多種視角; 個體穿行+事件節點+多綫互動的嫻熟處理 加上甘露老師齣色的寫作能力 確實相當精彩
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評分sketches on mapping different processes that shaped/ have been shaping the space/ borderworld 其中的process涵蓋從個體到國傢 從物質環境到人類群體的多種視角; 個體穿行+事件節點+多綫互動的嫻熟處理 加上甘露老師齣色的寫作能力 確實相當精彩
評分sketches on mapping different processes that shaped/ have been shaping the space/ borderworld 其中的process涵蓋從個體到國傢 從物質環境到人類群體的多種視角; 個體穿行+事件節點+多綫互動的嫻熟處理 加上甘露老師齣色的寫作能力 確實相當精彩
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Crossing the Bay of Bengal 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載