Agents of Empire读书介绍
| 类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 书籍 | 640页 | 2020 | Penguin |
| 定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
|---|---|---|---|
| £15.99 | 2020-02-20 … | 2021-07-28 … | 12 |
In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower - the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. There was violent conflict, from raiding and corsairing to large-scale warfare, but there were also many forms of peaceful interaction across the surprisingly porous frontiers of these opposing power-blocs. Agents of Empire describes the paths taken through the eastern Mediterranean and its European hinterland by members of a Venetian-Albanian family, almost all of them previously invisible to history. They include an archbishop in the Balkans, the captain of the papal flagship at the Battle of Lepanto, the power behind the throne in the Ottoman province of Moldavia, and a dragoman (interpreter) at the Venetian embassy in Istanbul.
Through the life-stories of these adventurous individuals over three generations, Noel Malcolm casts the world between Venice, Rome and the Ottoman Empire in a fresh light, illuminating subjects as diverse as espionage, diplomacy, the grain trade, slave-ransoming and anti-Ottoman rebellion. He describes the conflicting strategies of the Christian powers, and the extraordinarily ambitious plans of the sultans and their viziers. Few works since Fernand Braudel's classic account of the sixteenth-century Mediterranean, published more than sixty years ago, have ranged so widely through this vital period of Mediterranean and European history. A masterpiece of scholarship as well as story-telling, Agents of Empire builds up a panoramic picture, both of Western power-politics and of the interrelations between the Christian and Ottoman worlds.
作者简介诺埃尔·马尔科姆（Noel Malcolm）
英国历史学家，牛津大学万灵学院高级研究员。
1995年以前，曾任政治专栏记者及外交事务编辑，在英美各大报刊发表多篇政治及书评文章。之后转入学术研究，长期关注巴尔干地区历史与基督教-伊斯兰关系，作品包括《波斯尼亚简史》《科索沃简史》《叛军、信徒、幸存者：阿尔巴尼亚人历史研究》等。
1997年，当选英国皇家文学院院士。2001年，当选不列颠学院院士。2014年，因其在学术、新闻及欧洲史方面的贡献，获封爵士。
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