Conquerors : How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 432 pages

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Imprint:Faber & Faber

Edition:Main

ISBN:9780571290901

Published:4 Aug 2016

Weight:342g

Dimensions:198 x 129 x 28 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

通过“地中海史诗三部曲”（《1453》《海洋帝国》《财富之城》），《纽约时报》畅销书作家罗杰·克劳利确立了自己的地位：他是我们这一代研究欧洲伟大航海帝国的卓越历史学家，也是十字军东征之后东西方冲突领域的专家。在《征服者》中，克劳利讲述了葡萄牙崛起的史诗故事。由于莫大的勇气和它的探险家们高超的航海技能——这种战术优势在当时是任何一个国家都无法比拟的——这个贫穷的小国在一个世纪里主宰了海上霸权。葡萄牙发现通往印度的新航道、对抗穆斯林统治者的帝国主义征服战争和对香料贸易的垄断，将永j性地扰乱地中海，并建立第一个全球经济体。

克劳利依赖书信与目击者证词来叙述蕞尔小国葡萄牙飞速而惊心动魄的崛起。《征服者》展现了葡萄牙帝国全副的光辉灿烂和凶狠残酷，将雄心勃勃而狂热奋进的阿维斯王朝的人物们描摹得栩栩如生。“幸运的”曼努埃尔一世国王、“完美君王”若昂二世、四处劫掠的总督阿方索·德·阿尔布开克和探险家瓦斯科·达伽马这些人物玩弄着他们个人的野心和帝国的公共目标，为了追寻全球的财富，往往要蒙受惨重损失。葡萄牙崛起的故事的另一个核心是，它努力要消灭伊斯兰文化，在印度洋建立一个基d教帝国。为了寻找神话中的基d教君主祭司王约翰，葡萄牙探险家深入非洲腹地；他们还残酷无情地攻打印度的港口城市，力图垄断贸易。

绕过非洲之角去往印度的航道的发现，是航海史上的伟大突破，但也预示着世界秩序被彻底打乱。在随后一个世纪里，没有一个欧洲帝国比葡萄牙更野心勃勃，没有一位君主比葡萄牙列王更掠夺成性。在这过程中，他们创建了第一个远程的航海帝国，释放出了如今塑造我们世界的全球化力量。在克劳利笔下，葡萄牙帝国的完整故事及其野心造成的人道代价，终于得到了讲述。

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.

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“Fast-paced and vivid narrative...a fascinating account of the rise of an empire.”

- FRANCOIS SOYER, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE

在他之前的关于十五六世纪基d徒和奥斯曼帝国争夺地中海的研究里，克劳利已经表现出一种罕见的才华，即将令人手不释卷的叙述与细致到位的学术研究结合起来，同时还能将人性与地缘政治平衡。在本书里，这种才华表现得淋漓尽致。他讲述的故事惊心动魄，但并不是每一位历史学家都能把这个故事讲得这么精彩。——迈克尔·普罗杰，《金融时报》

“In his previous studies of 15th- and 16th-century struggles between Christians and Ottomans for control of the Mediterranean, Crowley has shown a rare gift for combining compelling narrative with lightly worn academic thoroughness as well as for balancing the human with the geopolitical - qualities on display here. The story he has to tell may be a thrilling one but not every historian could tell it so thrillingly.”

- MICHAEL PRODGER, FINANCIAL TIMES

作者简介

罗杰·克劳利是一位英国历史学家，以关于海洋和地中海历史的著作著称。 罗杰·克劳利是一个海军家庭的孩子，在马尔他的早期生活经历，使他对地中海世界的历史与文化产生了浓厚的兴趣，并成为他作品的一贯主题。他就读于剑桥大学伊曼纽尔学院。他在希腊语世界到处旅行，在伊斯坦堡教授英语，步行穿越了土耳其西部。著有“地中海史诗三部曲”《1453》、《海洋帝国》和《财富之城》。

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