Conquerors

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

出版者:Faber & Faber

作者:Roger Crowley

页数:400

出版时间:2015-9-17

价格:GBP 20.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780571290895

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.

读后感

能将那段复杂而遥远的历史以如此清晰富有文采的语言进行描述实属不易，虽然不是一部学术著作，但也是一本极优秀的历史读本。作者虽然力图中立，但也有为殖民者粉饰之嫌。如果我们细细去考究全球化、殖民主义初期的历史，虽然叹于葡萄牙、西班牙人的航海勇气，但不应该把这种受...  

能将那段复杂而遥远的历史以如此清晰富有文采的语言进行描述实属不易，虽然不是一部学术著作，但也是一本极优秀的历史读本。作者虽然力图中立，但也有为殖民者粉饰之嫌。如果我们细细去考究全球化、殖民主义初期的历史，虽然叹于葡萄牙、西班牙人的航海勇气，但不应该把这种受...  

用户评价

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

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。

the crimes the western countries committed,the clash of western pirates and Arab merchants,the origin of arab declining.

The sea with limits may be Greek or Roman; the sea without end is Portuguese. Knowledge is power and wealth.

“地中海史诗三部曲”作者克劳利的新书来啦。。。葡萄牙探索印度洋和太平洋，在亚洲的殖民活动，与伊斯兰世界的战争