One Fine Day
Autor Matthew Parkeren Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 sep 2023
Relevanța acestei lucrări pentru studenții la istorie și cercetătorii relațiilor internaționale rezidă în abordarea sa micro-istorică aplicată unui cadru global. One Fine Day analizează structura Imperiului Britanic într-un punct critic: 29 septembrie 1923, ziua în care acesta a atins apogeul teritorial, controlând un sfert din masa terestră a planetei. Apreciem modul în care Matthew Parker evită abordarea pur statistică a „bilanțului” imperial, preferând să imersăm cititorul în experiența umană directă a epocii prin documente de arhivă și jurnale personale.
Remarcăm o schimbare de paradigmă față de lucrările anterioare ale autorului. Dacă în Monte Cassino se concentra pe rigoarea bătăliei militare, iar în The Sugar Barons explora mecanismele economice ale coloniilor, aici Parker reușește o sinteză socială complexă. Stilul este unul narativ, dar fundamentat academic, capturând vocea unor actori diverși, de la guvernatori la migranți umili. Volumul reprezintă o alternativă necesară la Empire de Niall Ferguson pentru cursurile de istorie modernă; în timp ce Ferguson se concentrează pe impactul instituțional și economic, Parker aduce avantajul unei perspective „de jos în sus”, punând accent pe identitatea culturală și tensiunile etnice care prevesteau deja declinul imperiului.
Structura cărții facilitează înțelegerea modului în care entități politice multietnice au fost gestionate sub presiunea datoriilor postbelice. Este o resursă valoroasă pentru cei care studiază tranziția de la apogeul imperial la decolonizare, oferind un context viu pentru subiecte precum rasismul sistemic și utilizarea religiei în scopuri politice.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1541703820
Pagini: 624
Dimensiuni: 160 x 237 x 51 mm
Greutate: 0.87 kg
Editura: PublicAffairs
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De ce să citești această carte
Această carte este esențială pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă complexitatea Imperiului Britanic dincolo de hărțile colorate în roșu. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă nuanțată asupra anului 1923, descoperind cum viața cotidiană din colonii a modelat lumea globalizată de astăzi. Este o recomandare excelentă pentru cei pasionați de istorie documentată riguros, care caută povești umane autentice integrate într-o analiză geopolitică de anvergură.
Despre autor
Matthew Parker este un istoric britanic de prestigiu, ales membru al Royal Historical Society. Cariera sa este marcată de o capacitate extraordinară de a transforma cercetarea istorică densă în narațiuni accesibile, scriind pentru publicații britanice majore și contribuind la programe TV și radio în Marea Britanie și America de Nord. Printre lucrările sale de referință se numără The Sugar Barons și Goldeneye, aceasta din urmă explorând viața lui Ian Fleming în Jamaica. Parker este recunoscut pentru atenția acordată detaliului uman în contextul marilor evenimente istorice, fie că este vorba despre construcția Canalului Panama sau bătăliile celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial.
Descriere scurtă
September 29, 1923. Once the Palestine Mandate officially takes effect, the British Empire—now covering a quarter of the world’s land and boasting a population of 460 million—is the largest the world has ever seen. But it is also an empire in rapid transition.
Nationalist and Pan-African movements are gaining momentum throughout West Africa, thanks as much to Marcus Garvey as to the sustained efforts of local activists and politicians.
On far-flung Ocean Island in the Pacific, highly profitable phosphate extraction threatens to render the land uninhabitable for its native population—and colonial officials are torn between their integrity and their careers.
And in India, Jawaharlal Nehru and fellow nationalists wonder despairingly about the future of the independence movement as Gandhi languishes in prison.
Moving from London to Kuala Lumpur, Australia to the West Indies, One Fine Day is a breathtaking and unflinching tour of the British Empire at its pinnacle. Here the Empire is at its biggest; but it is on a precipice, beset with debts and doubts as liberation movements emerge to undo the colonial era, and see the sun set on the Empire.
Descriere
'Breathtaking... vital and important. A wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN
'Marvellous... escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full complexity' SATHNAM SANGHERA
'Excellent... his mastery of detail is impeccable' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Sunday Times
'Extraordinary... [brings] the world of a century ago to fresh, vivid life' ALEX VON TUNZELMANN
THE STORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE AT ITS MAXIMUM TERRITORIAL EXTENT
On Saturday 29 September 1923, the Palestine Mandate became law and the British Empire now covered a scarcely credible quarter of the world's land mass, containing 460 million people. It was the largest empire the world had ever seen. But it was beset by debt and doubts.
This book is a new way of looking at the British Empire. It immerses the reader in the contemporary moment, focusing on particular people and stories from that day, gleaned from newspapers, letters, diaries, official documents, magazines, films and novels: from a remote Pacific island facing the removal of its entire soil, across Australia, Burma, India and Kenya to London and the West Indies.
In some ways, the issues of a hundred years ago are with us still: debates around cultural and ethnic identity in a globalised world; how to manage multi-ethnic political entities; racism; the divisive co-opting of religion for political purposes; the dangers of ignorance. In others, it is totally alien. What remains extraordinary is the Empire's ability to reveal the most compelling human stories. Never before has there been a book which contains such a wide spread of vivid experiences from both colonised and coloniser: from the grandest governors to the humblest migrants, policemen and nurses.
Recenzii
Extraordinary... superb... It is a book for serious people who can handle difficult moral contradictions, and will undoubtedly annoy zealots of all stripes
I greatly enjoyed Matthew Parker's One Fine Day... hugely impressive in its research and balance and fully deserving of its many plaudits
Excellent... his mastery of detail is impeccable
A refreshingly nuanced montage of the Empire on its last legs... Empire was many things and Parker belongs to that vanishing minority that recognises this. What we have here is a fair appraisal of the life of the land, elegantly synthesised... By 1923, Parker shows with suggestive brilliance in his montage, Empire was on its last legs
Marvellous... escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees it in its full complexity
Breathtaking, extraordinarily rich and beautifully written. One Fine Day is a vital and important history that is truly global in scope and ambition. A wonderful read
An engrossing and wide-ranging account of the zenith of the British Empire - with all the contradictions, brittleness, ambition and hubris that moment entailed. Across Continents and characters, Matthew Parker provides a new, global history of British imperialism which feels both epic and immediate.
Extraordinary. Matthew Parker's magisterial sweep through one day of British imperial history and culture plunges us into the global complexity of the British Empire, bringing the world of a century ago to fresh, vivid life. An astonishing achievement.
An epic portrait of the British Empire on the brink... Parker paints a brilliant picture, teeming with fresh faces and new voices
There is something Shakespearian about Matthew Parker's insightful argument that it was at exactly the time that the British Empire reached its greatest territorial size that the factors coalesced which were to destroy it... Parker has rendered a signal service by convincingly pinpointing the exact fulcrum moment in its half-millennium long history
Exquisitely crafted and beautifully written, full of delicious detail and extraordinary insight
A panoramic view of the British Empire on September 29, 1923... Parker vividly demonstrates the empire's vast reach and the 'impossibly conflicting interests between government [and] the governed' ... Accessible and sturdy, this expansive account provides solid ground for understanding the decline of the British Empire. It's an eye-opening and a unique vantage point from which to study 20th-century history
An ambitious history of the beginning of the end of vast dominions of the British Empire on Sept. 29, 1923... a multilayered portrait, with deep contextual background... An impressive work of research and synthesis tracing the end of an empire
Epic in scale yet intimate in detail... a vast historical canvas on which each individual brushstroke had been brought vividly to life. A narrative triumph
An engrossing read sprung from an impressive archival sweep... Parker tells the unwieldy story of empire through a microcosm, and in so doing captures it in all its chaotic contradictions... An impressive feat that few historians are capable of
A picture of an empire straining under the weight of its own contradictions... Mr Parker points this out with copious examples and meticulous research
One Fine Day takes an engrossing trip round [the British Empire] at the very moment, almost exactly 100 years ago, when it reached its greatest extent
A clever concept that works extraordinarily well... Exhaustively researched and sensitively written, One Fine Day is a superbly nuanced snapshot of the British Empire at its apogee
[An] impressive history... Parker has scoured newspapers, letters and diaries for nuanced, first-person accounts of the reality of empire
'Marvellous...escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full complexity' Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of Empireland
On Saturday 29 September 1923, the Palestine Mandate became law and the British Empire reached what would prove to be its maximum territorial extent, covering a scarcely credible quarter of the world's land mass, containing 460 million people. But the tide was beginning to turn.
This book is a new way of looking at the British Empire. It immerses the reader in the contemporary moment, focusing on particular people and stories from that day, gleaned from newspapers, letters, diaries, official documents, magazines, films and novels: from a remote Pacific Island facing the removal of its entire soil, across Australia, Burma, India and Kenya to London and the West Indies.
In some ways, the issues of a hundred years ago are with us still: debates around cultural and ethnic identity in a globalised world; how to manage multi-ethnic political entities; racism; the divisive co-opting of religion for political purposes; the dangers of ignorance. In others it is totally alien. What remains extraordinary is the Empire's ability to reveal the most compelling human stories. Never before has there been a book which contains such a wide spread of vivid experiences from both colonised and coloniser: from Pan-Africanists in West Africa to militant Buddhists in Burma; governors, policemen and nurses.
'An engrossing and wide-ranging account of the zenith of the British Empire - with all the contradictions, brittleness, ambition and hubris that moment entailed. Across Continents and characters, Matthew Parker provides a new, global history of British imperialism which feels both epic and immediate' Tristram Hunt