缔造大英帝国：从史前时代到北美十三州独立

by James Truslow Adams, 詹姆斯·特拉斯洛·亚当斯, 张茂元 (Translator)

大英帝国是人类历史上最强大的殖民帝国，曾统治全球1/4的陆地与人口；在其领土上，太阳永不落下，是为“日不落帝国”。那么，最初仅仅是孤悬于欧洲大陆外的一个海岛，如何成为后来的庞大帝国？

美国著名历史学家、普利策奖得主詹姆斯·亚当斯在本书中，以时间顺序为框架，采用讲故事的方式，将我们带回一个个具体的历史场景：被罗马人与野蛮人相继入侵、岛上七大王朝兴衰更替、与法国等大陆强国数百年的血腥厮杀、以商业和殖民称霸全球、北美十三州反叛独立……通过对近2000年历史的仔细梳理，亚当斯从王权与议会的斗争、法制、宗教、文化等诸多方面，为大英帝国何以崛起及其在世界历史中担任的角色提供了清晰的答案。

472 pages, Hardcover

First published February 28, 1992

About the author

Born to a wealthy Yankee family in Brooklyn, New York, Adams took his bachelor's degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1898, and a MA degree from Yale University in 1900. He entered investment banking, rising to partner in a New York Stock Exchange member firm. until 1912. In 1912, he considered his savings ample enough to switch his to a career as a writer.

Adams coined the term "American Dream" in his 1931 book The Epic of America. His American Dream is "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.

An American historian, Adams wrote The Founding of New England (1921), which brought him the Pulitzer Prize in history for 1922, was followed by Revolutionary New England, 1691–1776 (1923) and New England in the Republic, 1776–1850 (1926). Among the best of his many books are Provincial Society, 1690–1763 (Vol. III in the “History of American Life” series, 1927) and The Epic of America (1931), which was widely translated. The Adams Family (1930) and Henry Adams (1933) were books on the famous Massachusetts clan, to which he was not related.

Reviews

[Chelsea · Rating 3 out of 5]

贯穿罗马之后到近代的英国史及里程碑事件 而其中一个王朝/时期都可作为专题细讲 而这本只是泛泛而讲类似纲要此类 作者似乎更偏好历史时期的法律/文学的因子.