发表于2024-11-10
Europe's Tragedy 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. All the major European powers apart from Russia were heavily involved and, while each country started out with rational war aims, the fighting rapidly spiralled out of control, with great battles giving way to marauding bands of starving soldiers spreading plague and murder. The war was both a religious and a political one and it was this tangle of motives that made it impossible to stop. Whether motivated by idealism or cynicism, everyone drawn into the conflict was destroyed by it. At its end a recognizably modern Europe had been created but at a terrible price. Peter Wilson's book is a major work, the first new history of the war in a generation, and a fascinating, brilliantly written attempt to explain a compelling series of events. Wilson's great strength is in allowing the reader to understand the tragedy of mixed motives that allowed rulers to gamble their countries' future with such horrifying results. The principal actors in the drama (Wallenstein, Ferdinand II, Gustavus Adolphus, and Richelieu) are all here, but so is the experience of the ordinary soldiers and civilians, desperately trying to stay alive under impossible circumstances.
一场无意义的战争,800万(有人估计相当于今天1.6亿)人死于非命,换来的仅仅是危不足道的领土和德国宪法变更
评分所有读过的书里面信息量最密集的,可能比布罗代尔的书还密集,从美洲白银价格到运宝船的路线和规划再到早一艘帆船需要多少松木和橡木再讲到丹麦在厄勒海峡能有多少年通行费再到勃兰登堡选帝侯的大姑的表姨子跟皇帝的,地名有好几百个,德国1万以上人口的城市几乎都涉及了,人名倒没那么多,反正大家都叫威廉弗里德里希格奥尔格克里斯蒂安。难得可贵的是,在这些极其密集的信息量之后,能看到对人物character的透视,能看到一些关键人物的性格对历史走向的影响。同时也有深刻的同情,也能看到每个个人在宗教、帝国、dynasty, country, state之间的摇摆,很难说每个人都犯下了极大的错误,也很难谁站在了历史潮流的一面谁又没有,只能说他们都对自己所相信的有太强的执念/信念。这就是现代早期的魅力。
评分所有读过的书里面信息量最密集的,可能比布罗代尔的书还密集,从美洲白银价格到运宝船的路线和规划再到早一艘帆船需要多少松木和橡木再讲到丹麦在厄勒海峡能有多少年通行费再到勃兰登堡选帝侯的大姑的表姨子跟皇帝的,地名有好几百个,德国1万以上人口的城市几乎都涉及了,人名倒没那么多,反正大家都叫威廉弗里德里希格奥尔格克里斯蒂安。难得可贵的是,在这些极其密集的信息量之后,能看到对人物character的透视,能看到一些关键人物的性格对历史走向的影响。同时也有深刻的同情,也能看到每个个人在宗教、帝国、dynasty, country, state之间的摇摆,很难说每个人都犯下了极大的错误,也很难谁站在了历史潮流的一面谁又没有,只能说他们都对自己所相信的有太强的执念/信念。这就是现代早期的魅力。
评分一场无意义的战争,800万(有人估计相当于今天1.6亿)人死于非命,换来的仅仅是危不足道的领土和德国宪法变更
评分很专业,更适合历史专业的研究者阅读。剖析时特别注意剔除习见之断。
Europe's Tragedy 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书