1873：大萧条之始与现代世界的崛起（《金融之王》作者） 1873 : The First Great Depression and the Making of the Modern World

基本信息

ISBN-13：9781529155853

ISBN-10：1529155851

Author：Liaquat Ahamed

Publisher：Cornerstone

Imprint：Hutchinson Heinemann

Format：Hardcover

Number of Pages：352

Release Date：10 July 2026

Weight：750g

Dimensions：240mm x 156mm x 40mm

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书籍简介

普利策奖获奖作品《金融之王》的作者带来了一部精彩绝伦的新作，讲述了历史上最早的真正意义上的全球性金融灾难。

1873年5月9日，星期五，维也纳股市崩盘。四个月后，华尔街陷入困境。与此同时，恐慌性抛售席卷全球金融市场，一些国家债务违约，英格兰银行被迫将利率提高到百年来的高水平。这是历史上初次全球性金融危机，其后果极其惨重。

在这部震撼人心的新作中，普利策奖获奖作品《金融之王》的作者讲述了这场金融危机的史诗故事，并探讨了其造成的经济和人员伤亡。他描述了19世纪50年代和60年代国际债券市场的蓬勃发展如何为铁路、建筑和国家建设领域的投机狂潮提供了资金支持。他考察了那些被经济繁荣裹挟的人们，从罗斯柴尔德家族等银行家，到既有远见卓识又贪婪无度的国家管理者，再到杰伊·古尔德这样的无赖和投机分子，以及像马克·吐温和卡尔·马克思这样持怀疑态度的旁观者。随后，他追溯了在随后的恐慌中，投资者如何遭受灾难性损失，而大西洋两岸的政府又如何仓促地、错误地试图重塑世界金融体系。

正如他所展示的，危机爆发过程中犯下的种种错误，为长达二十年的通货紧缩和民粹主义的惩罚性遗产埋下了伏笔，这种民粹主义的怨恨蔓延至全球各地。在金融危机的诸多余震中，美国放弃了重建，欧洲列强对负债累累的奥斯曼帝国进行了经济接管，国际自由贸易原则也面临考验。与此同时，欧洲反犹运动死灰复燃，将这场灾难归咎于“犹太人的金融活动”。

《1873年》一书精彩地再现了世界历史上的一个关键转折点，同时也深刻剖析了金融误判所带来的意想不到的政治和社会后果。

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lords of Finance comes a brilliant account of the earliest truly global financial calamity.

On Friday, 9 May 1873, the Vienna stock market collapsed. Four months later, Wall Street was in trouble. Elsewhere, as panic selling spread across financial markets, some countries defaulted on their debts, while the Bank of England was forced to raise its rates to their highest level in a century. It was the first global crash in history. And it was to have calamitous consequences.

In his powerful new book, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lords of Finance tells the epic story of that crash and explores its economic and human costs. He describes how the growth of the international bond market in the 1850s and 60s funded a frenzy of speculation in railways, construction, and nation-building. He examines those who became swept up in the boom, from leading bankers like the Rothschild dynasty to national leaders, both visionary and venal, to rogues and chancers like the shameless Jay Gould, to such skeptical onlookers as Mark Twain and Karl Marx. He then traces how, in the subsequent panic, investors were left with losses, while governments on both sides of the Atlantic rushed misguidedly to reorder the world’s financial system.

As he shows, the blunders made as the crisis unfolded set the stage for twenty years of deflation and a punitive legacy of aggrieved populism that infected every part of the globe. Amid the crash’s many aftershocks, the US abandoned Reconstruction, European powers staged an economic takeover of the heavily indebted Ottoman Empire, and the principle of international free trade came under pressure. Meanwhile, there was a revival of antisemitic movements in Europe that blamed ‘Jewish finance’ for the disaster.

A brilliant evocation of a key turning point in world history, 1873 is also a masterful examination of the unforeseen political and social consequences of financial misjudgements.

作者简介

利亚卡特·艾哈迈德

利亚卡特·艾哈迈德毕业于剑桥大学和哈佛大学，获得经济学学位。他曾在华盛顿特区的世界银行工作，并在伦敦和纽约担任了25年的专业投资经理，之后转行写作。

他的书《金融之王：那些摧毁世界的银行家们》（Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World）讲述了1929年大萧条的始末，荣获普利策历史奖、外交关系委员会亚瑟·罗斯金奖和《金融时报》年度最佳商业图书奖。

他是普特南基金的受托人、洛克溪集团的顾问，以及太阳谷作家大会的主席。他和妻子米娜居住在洛杉矶和华盛顿特区。

Liaquat Ahamed

Liaquat Ahamed graduated with degrees in economics from Cambridge and Harvard. He worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., and had a twenty-five-year career as a professional investment manager based in London and New York before turning to writing.

His first book, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, about the lead-up to the 1929 Great Depression, won the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Gold Medal, and the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award.

He is a trustee of the Putnam Funds, an adviser to the Rock Creek Group, and the Chair of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. He lives in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. with his wife Meena.