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1913

Autor Charles Emmerson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 feb 2014

Notăm cu interes modul în care 1913 de Charles Emmerson reușește să deconstruiască mitul unui an definit exclusiv de iminența catastrofei. Structura materialului este organizată metodologic nu cronologic, ci geografic și tematic, prin analiza a douăzeci și trei de centre urbane emblematice. Această abordare permite o cartografiere a lumii la apogeul influenței europene, dar și surprinderea emergenței noilor puteri globale. Suntem de părere că această strategie narativă transformă volumul dintr-o simplă cronică istorică într-un studiu complex de istorie urbană și socială.

Găsim în această carte o perspectivă care refuză să privească trecutul prin prisma deznodământului său tragic. În loc să se concentreze pe manevrele diplomatice din ajunul Marelui Război, Charles Emmerson investighează vitalitatea economică și culturală a unor orașe precum Los Angeles, Ierusalim sau Melbourne. Tonul este unul precis, ancorat în realitățile cotidiene ale epocii, oferind o corecție necesară imaginii idilice promovate de producții precum Downton Abbey. Din punct de vedere al experienței de lectură, ritmul este susținut de tranzițiile fluide între metropole, oferind cititorului o viziune panoramică asupra unei lumi interconectate prin telegraf și comerț.

Considerăm lucrarea o alternativă necesară la The Proud Tower de Barbara W. Tuchman pentru cursurile de istoria lumii moderne. Dacă Tuchman se concentrează pe tensiunile sociale și politice ale „turnului mândru” european, 1913 aduce avantajul unei perspective cu adevărat globale, extinzând analiza dincolo de granițele continentului nostru. Este o lectură care completează și Crucible, cealaltă lucrare a lui Charles Emmerson, prin focalizarea pe momentul de echilibru fragil de dinaintea transformării radicale a ordinii mondiale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780099575788
ISBN-10: 0099575787
Pagini: 544
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor pasionați de istorie care doresc să înțeleagă complexitatea lumii moderne dincolo de conflictele militare. Prin explorarea a 23 de orașe globale, 1913 oferă o lecție valoroasă despre globalizare, progres tehnologic și diversitate culturală. Este un instrument util pentru studenți și universitari, oferind un context bogat pentru schimbările geopolitice care au definit secolul XX, prezentate într-un format accesibil și riguros documentat.


Despre autor

Charles Emmerson este un istoric și cercetător britanic specializat în istorie internațională și geopolitică. Expertiza sa se concentrează pe perioadele de tranziție globală, fiind recunoscut pentru capacitatea de a sintetiza volume mari de date istorice în narațiuni coerente. Lucrările sale, printre care se numără și Crucible, reflectă un interes profund pentru modul în care orașele și regiunile geografice modelează cursul istoriei mari. Stilul său se distinge prin rigoarea academică dublată de o perspectivă panoramică asupra evenimentelor mondiale.


Descriere scurtă

An examination of the previously overlooked year of 1913, a seminal moment in history and a time of internationalism and industrialism before the world descended into the chaos of WWI.

Descriere

'If Downton Abbey still colours your impression of what Britain was like on the cusp of the First World War, 1913 could be a useful corrective' Scotsman 2018 marks the centenary of the end of the Great War. What was the year before the war really like? 1913 is usually seen as little more than the antechamber to apocalypse. Our images of the times are too often dominated by last summers of upper-class indulgence or by a world rushing headlong into the abyss of an inevitable war. 1913- The World before the Great War proposes a strikingly different portrait- told through the stories of twenty-three cities - Europe's capitals at the height of their global reach, the emerging metropolises of America, the imperial cities of Asia and Africa, the boomtowns of Australia and the Americas - Charles Emmerson presents a panoramic view of a world crackling with possibilities, from St Petersburg to Shanghai and from Los Angeles to Jerusalem. What emerges is a rich and complex world, more familiar than we expect, connected as never before, on the threshold of events which would change the course of global history. 'A masterful, comprehensive portrait of the world at that last moment in its history...' Spectator

Notă biografică

Charles Emmerson was born in Australia and grew up in London. After graduating top of his class in modern history from Oxford University, he took up an Entente Cordiale scholarship to study international relations and international public law in Paris. The author of The Future History of the Arctic, he writes and speaks widely on international affairs. He is a senior research fellow at Chatham House (the Royal Institute for International Affairs).

Recenzii

New Statesman (UK)
“One of the great merits of Charles Emmerson's global panorama is to show events in the months leading up to the summer of 1914 as something other than a precursor to mass slaughter.”

The Independent (UK)
“Emmerson has done his homework. His book girdles the earth in an impressive fashion and conjures up a world we have lost.”

Sunday Business Post (Ireland)
“Emmerson's book is an ambitious effort…But there is so much that captivates, particularly the entertaining social detail and anecdote, such as the fact it took three years to assess JP Morgan's gargantuan estate, which included 138 watches in one of his houses in London.”

The Spectator (UK)
“a masterful, comprehensive portrait of the world at that last moment in its history when Europe was incontrovertibly ‘the centre of the universe' and, within it, London ‘the centre of the world'…Charles Emmerson's 1913 brilliantly rescues [history] from the shadow of a war that would toll the end of the Old World and leave its survivors repining the loss of a Golden Age that had never been.”

The Express (UK)
“Where Emmerson really scores is in the nuggets of detail and contemporary quotes that sparkle from these essays.”
The Guardian (UK)
“To capture a year of the world in a single snapshot is, of course, impossible, but Emmerson provides a real sense of 1913 by combining details of individual lives with sweeping international trends: one of the great pleasures of this book is to see parallels between then and now."

New York Review of Books
"...Let's pause at this point, for Charles Emmerson's book presents a remarkable anatomy of the world in that single year 1913. He casts it in the form of spirited and diverting vignettes, with lively quotations and local color.

Booklist
“Portraying the European capitals of the next year's belligerent countries, Emmerson strikes a cosmopolitan tone by noting social interconnections linking London to Paris to Berlin to Constantinople.…Including stops in Tehran, Mexico City, Jerusalem, several U.S. cities, Shanghai, and Tokyo, Emmerson's historical world tour emotively captures the civilization soon to vanish in WWI.”

The Guardian (UK)
1913 has narrative verve and insight”

The Times (UK)
“The old empires were starting to implode and the centres could no longer hold.  In an ambitious book, Emmerson catches their last vital sparks in the year before darkness fell.”

The Scotsman
“It is an epic, sprawling panorama of a book, intended to show the moving world as it was, to bring the past to life in order to clarify the present. It's a monumentally ambitious aim. The remarkable thing is, he pulls it off.”

The Guardian
“An ambitious, subtle account of the way the world was going until the first world war changed everything.” 

Daily Mail (UK)
“This ambitious panorama of a world on the brink throws up comparisons which are constantly provocative and fascinating.”

Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Marvelous… Emmerson, a scholar at Chatham House, a renowned London think tank, brilliantly avoids the inevitability trap in ‘1913.' His panoramic depiction of the last year before the Great War permits us to see the world ‘as it might have looked through contemporary eyes, in its full colour and complexity, with a sense of the future's openness'…Emmerson is a superb guide and companion, whether inviting us to take a seat next to him in ‘a favourite corner' of a Viennese cafe or to survey tout Paris from the Eiffel Tower. In many ways, his book works as a ‘time-travelogue'; indeed, it frequently quotes contemporary tourist literature and travelers' accounts.”