Roger Crowley read English at Cambridge. He has had a varied career as a teacher and publisher and is the author of three books on the history of the Mediterranean. He lives in Gloucestershire and now writes full time. His website address is www.rogercrowley.co.uk
发表于2024-11-04
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作者这种流水账式的写作方法对于了解一段未知的历史来说,还是很有用的。多年前观看央视的纪录片大国崛起,第一集就讲葡萄牙帝国的崛起。虽然看完之后只对雄才大略的恩里克王子有深刻印象,但也记住了葡萄牙建立起第一个世界性的殖民帝国,吹响了欧洲统治世界的号角。 直布罗陀...
评分 评分作者这种流水账式的写作方法对于了解一段未知的历史来说,还是很有用的。多年前观看央视的纪录片大国崛起,第一集就讲葡萄牙帝国的崛起。虽然看完之后只对雄才大略的恩里克王子有深刻印象,但也记住了葡萄牙建立起第一个世界性的殖民帝国,吹响了欧洲统治世界的号角。 直布罗陀...
评分图书标签: 葡萄牙 历史 English 殖民史 探险 帝国 英國 歷史
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range maritime empire. In an astonishing blitz of thirty years, a handful of visionary and utterly ruthless empire builders, with few resources but breathtaking ambition, attempted to seize the Indian Ocean, destroy Islam and take control of world trade. Told with Roger Crowley's customary skill and verve, this is narrative history at its most vivid - an epic tale of navigation, trade and technology, money and religious zealotry, political diplomacy and espionage, sea battles and shipwrecks, endurance, courage and terrifying brutality. Drawing on extensive first-hand accounts, it brings to life the exploits of an extraordinary band of conquerors - men such as Afonso de Albuquerque, the first European since Alexander the Great to found an Asian empire - who set in motion five hundred years of European colonisation and unleashed the forces of globalisation.
The sea with limits may be Greek or Roman; the sea without end is Portuguese. Knowledge is power and wealth.
评分The sea with limits may be Greek or Roman; the sea without end is Portuguese. Knowledge is power and wealth.
评分喜欢足球的朋友应该知道一句话:欧洲无弱旅,此话用在1500年后的欧洲也适用。以《地中海三部曲》出名的英国历史学家Crawley的新作,讲述了偏居欧洲西南一隅的葡萄牙率欧洲之先探索并征服非洲、印度洋、马六甲海峡的故事。在东罗马帝国陷落后,伊斯兰世界构成基督教世界的极大威胁,就在此时,蕞尔小国葡萄牙突然拔起,避开地中海,绕非洲而超伊斯兰的后路,他们在印度西岸打入,锋芒直逼红海。包括曼努尔在内的三代国王,以踏平马木留克帝国、荡寇伊斯兰、收复耶路撒冷进而成为欧洲的王中王为蓝图,大力投资海上探险,在一百多年的时间内,建立了欧洲中世纪后第一个全球帝国!现在,葡萄牙衰落成欧洲病夫,而就在1500年的时间,她竟然是欧洲的前锋和船头!
评分Had there been more of the world, would have discovered it. 从未想过,贝伦蛋挞原来融合了世界的味道——肉桂,咖啡,糖
评分1 除了自身发展的内在驱动,原来寻找圣约翰王,光大基督圣意也是大航海时代的诱因。2 客观来说,也加速了世界的融合、发展。3 希望作者能再接再厉,写一写葡萄牙帝国的衰落。
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