《港口城市与解锁世界》内容简介
一部蒸汽时代全球化历史的精彩著述，生动阐释了蒸汽动力产生之前及之后世界主要港口城市的兴衰。从新奥尔良到蒙特利尔，从孟买到新加坡，从加尔各答到上海，作者通过一个个历史案例的精妙解读，提出了有关全球化现代世界形成的独到见解。蒸汽动力通过重塑城市和海洋而改变了世界，大幅提高了陆路和水路运输的便捷性，开创了复杂的资源消耗型世界工业体系，彻底改变了人们的工作和生产方式，其后果就是，欧洲和美国以前所未有的规模在全球肆意扩张，并造就了当下我们所生活的世界。
作者简介
约翰•达尔文（JohnDarwin）英国国家学术院院士，牛津大学全球史研究中心创始主任、历史系荣休教授、纳菲尔德学院研究员，专注于研究帝国的兴衰史，其著作《后帖木儿时代》曾获“沃尔夫森历史奖”。
Port City and Unlock the World content introduction
A fascinating history of globalization in the steam age, illustrating the rise and fall of the world's major port cities before and after steam power. From New Orleans to Montreal, from Mumbai to Singapore, from Kolkata to Shanghai, the author offers unique insights into the formation of the globalized modern world through the subtle interpretation of historical cases. Steam power transformed the world by reshaping cities and oceans, vastly improving the ease of land and water transportation, creating complex, resource-consuming world industrial systems, and revolutionizing the way people work and produce, with the result that Europe and the United States expanded across the globe on an unprecedented scale and shaped the world we live in today.
About the author
JohnDarwin is a fellow of the British National Academy, founding director of the Centre for Global History at Oxford University, emeritus Professor of History, and Fellow of Nuffield College. He focuses on the rise and fall of empires and won the Wolfson Prize for History for his book The Post-Timurid Era.
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