《棺材船》【内容介绍】

　　19世纪四五十年代，爱尔兰爆发大饥荒，数百万贫苦民众无以果腹，只得漂洋过海，希求移民他乡开始新的生活。关于大饥荒时期爱尔兰移民的记载，往往由令人厌倦的陈词滥调、半真半假和冷冰冰的统计数据组成。

　　在《棺材船》这部开创性的跨国历史作品中，麦克马洪对移民过程中一个至关重要但经常被忽视的部分——旅程本身提供了充满活力的新视角。

　　当饥肠辘辘的人们奔向海边，令人失望的现实摆在他们面前：没有足够可供远航的船舶可以搭乘。而那些费尽千辛万苦踏上甲板的人，也同时把一只脚伸进了棺材——黑暗、潮湿、拥挤是漫长旅程的主基调，疫病肆虐之下，饥饿、脱水与眩晕完全不堪一提。许多人在船上死去，随即被抛入大海，因此移民船也被称作“棺材船”，成为19世纪移民航行中臭名昭著的标签。

　　全书分五个部分展开：准备、登船、海上生活、死亡、抵达。作者以三大洲的档案为基础，从移民的信件和日记出发，对海上行程进行复刻，这些移民的个人经历为我们提供了对这一关键历史的更为复杂的理解。而毫无疑问，平安抵达只是第一步，爱尔兰人在他乡的新生活才刚刚开启，船上生死与共的经历将为他们带来新的、更为紧密的关系。

　　作者简介

　　[爱尔兰]奇安·T.麦克马洪，美国内华达大学拉斯维加斯分校历史系副教授，本科毕业于加拿大曼尼托巴大学，硕士毕业于爱尔兰都柏林大学，博士毕业于美国卡内基梅隆大学，2010—2011年在杜肯大学历史系任客座讲师，2011—2014年在内华达大学拉斯维加斯分校做博士后研究。主要研究爱尔兰史、美国移民史、海洋社会史，重点关注移民的民族认同与身份认同问题，著有多部荣获奖项的历史作品，并在《美国历史评论》《爱尔兰历史研究》等期刊发表了一系列富有影响力的文章。

　　初庆东，南京大学与约克大学联合培养博士，华中师范大学博士后，牛津大学访问学者，现为华中师范大学历史文化学院副教授、硕士生导师，兼任中国史学会史学理论分会理事。主持国家社科基金青年项目和一般项目各1项，在《世界历史》《史学理论研究》《光明日报》（理论版）等发表学术论文多篇，出版《英国马克思主义历史学的起源》（独著）、《近代英国劳资冲突与化解》（合著）等作品，研究成果荣获江苏省第十七届哲学社会科学优秀成果奖。

Coffin Boat 【 Content Introduction 】

In the 1840s and 1850s, a great famine broke out in Ireland, and millions of poor people had no food to eat, so they had to migrate across the sea to start a new life elsewhere. Accounts of Irish emigration during the Great Famine often consist of tired platitudes, half-truths and cold statistics.

In Coffin Boats, a groundbreaking transnational history, McMahon offers a vibrant new perspective on a crucial but often overlooked part of the migration process - the journey itself.

As hungry people head for the sea, they are confronted with a disappointing reality: there are not enough ships to sail far. And those who had taken the trouble to get on board had also put one foot in the coffin - darkness, dampness, and crowding were the main themes of the long journey, with hunger, dehydration, and vertigo all to mention amid the ravages of disease. So many people died on board and were thrown into the sea that migrant ships, also known as "coffin ships", became an infamous label for migrant voyages in the 19th century.

The book is divided into five parts: preparation, embarkation, life at sea, death, and arrival. Based on archives from three continents, the author recreates sea journeys from letters and diaries of migrants whose personal experiences provide a more sophisticated understanding of this crucial history. And there is no doubt that the safe arrival is only the first step. The Irish are just beginning a new life abroad, and the experience of life and death on board will bring them new and closer relationships.

About the author

[Ireland] Chian T. McMahon, Associate Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Manitoba in Canada, his master's degree from University College Dublin in Ireland, and his doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University in the USA. He was a visiting lecturer in History at Duquesne University in 2010-2011. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas from 2011 to 2014. His research focuses on Irish history, American immigration history, and maritime social history, with a focus on the national identity and identity of immigrants. He has written several award-winning historical works and published a series of influential articles in journals such as the American Historical Review and Irish Historical Studies.

Chu Qingdong, Ph.D., co-trained by Nanjing University and York University, postdoctoral fellow of Central China Normal University, visiting scholar of Oxford University, is now associate professor and master's supervisor of the School of History and Culture of Central China Normal University, and director of the Branch of Historical Theory of the Chinese Historical Society. He presided over one youth project and one general project of the National Social Science Foundation, published many academic papers in World History, Research on Historical Theory, Guangming Daily (Theoretical edition), and published works such as The Origin of British Marxist History (sole author) and the Resolution of labor-Capital Conflict in Modern Britain (co-author). His research achievements won the 17th Outstanding Achievement Award of Philosophy and Social Sciences in Jiangsu Province.