工业革命：变革世界的引擎

A History of the Modern World #3

by R.R. Palmer, R.R. 帕尔默, Joel Colton

帕尔默等人所著的《现代世界史》初版于1950 年，广受好评，其销量在同类作品中始终名列前茅。它上溯欧洲古典时代，下及21世纪初，娓娓道来西欧如何在数百年里逐渐兴起，创造出一个辐射全球的政治、经济、军事、科技诸方面的世界体系。该书视野宏大，内容广博，论述细密，见解深刻睿智，展示出历史的奥妙与魅力所在。

本册《工业革命：变革世界的引擎》讲述了从19世纪初到第一次世界大战之前的历史发展。这期间欧洲，也是世界的决定性事件是工业革命，它使得欧洲奠定了对全球的统治地位，彻底地改变了世界面貌。从1870年开始，欧洲达到鼎盛时期，在政治经济等诸方面均形成了对世界的绝对优势。

306 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 2010

About the author

Robert Roswell Palmer (January 11, 1909 – June 11, 2002), commonly known as R. R. Palmer, was a distinguished American historian at Princeton and Yale universities, who specialized in eighteenth-century France. His most influential work of scholarship, The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760–1800 (1959 and 1964), examined an age of democratic revolution that swept the Atlantic civilization between 1760 and 1800. He was awarded the Bancroft Prize in History for the first volume. Palmer also achieved distinction as a history text writer.

Reviews

[WaldenOgre · Rating 4 out of 5]

“1854-1856年，当英国与俄国在克里米亚酣战时，伦敦银行界还为俄国政府筹措贷款——那时候，政治和商业竟是如此互不相干。”古典自由主义好奔放啊……