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The Sleepwalkers de Christopher Clark

The Sleepwalkers

Autor Christopher Clark
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 iul 2013

Înțelegerea mecanismelor istorice care au declanșat Marele Război necesită o prioritizare a abilităților de analiză critică și sinteză a surselor diplomatice complexe. Remarcăm modul în care The Sleepwalkers reîmprospătează o dezbatere istoriografică de peste un secol, reușind să transforme o documentare academică riguroasă într-o narațiune alertă și nuanțată. Christopher Clark nu caută vinovați singulari, ci explorează modul în care liderii europeni au „pășit somnambulic” spre o catastrofă pe care niciunul nu a anticipat-o pe deplin. Abordarea este distinctivă prin atenția acordată contextului sârbesc și balcanic, adesea marginalizat în alte lucrări. Autorul demonstrează cum un act de terorism regional a putut destabiliza o civilizație aparent prosperă. The Sleepwalkers completează excelent volumul The War that Ended Peace de Professor Margaret MacMillan; în timp ce MacMillan se concentrează pe deceniile de tensiuni care au precedat conflictul, Clark oferă o analiză mult mai granulară a crizelor diplomatice imediate și a psihologiei decidenților. Notăm cu interes continuitatea tematică față de Iron Kingdom, lucrarea sa anterioară despre Prusia. Dacă în acea operă Clark explora ascensiunea unei puteri centrale, aici el documentează momentul în care structurile de putere europene s-au dovedit incapabile să gestioneze propria lor complexitate. Ritmul este susținut de portrete vii ale personajelor istorice, oferind cititorului o perspectivă imersivă asupra unei Europe aflate în pragul autodistrugerii.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141027821
ISBN-10: 0141027827
Pagini: 736
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 45 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte pasionaților de istorie modernă și relații internaționale care doresc să depășească explicațiile simpliste despre originile Primului Război Mondial. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care micile decizii politice se pot acumula într-un dezastru global. Este o lecție magistrală despre fragilitatea păcii și despre complexitatea diplomației europene, scrisă cu o eleganță stilistică rară în literatura de specialitate.

Despre autor

Christopher Clark este profesor de istorie modernă la Universitatea Cambridge și membru al St Catharine's College. Specialist recunoscut în istoria europeană a secolelor XIX și XX, a fost distins cu Crucea de Ofițer a Ordinului de Merit al Republicii Federale Germania pentru contribuțiile sale academice. Opera sa de referință, Iron Kingdom, a fost recompensată cu Wolfson History Prize, consolidându-i reputația de istoric capabil să combine rigoarea cercetării cu un stil narativ captivant. Prin The Sleepwalkers, Clark a redefinit standardele analizei istorice contemporane privind originile Marelui Război.

Notă biografică

Christopher Clark is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. He is the author of The Politics of Conversion, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Iron Kingdom. Widely praised around the world, Iron Kingdom became a major bestseller. He has been awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Sleepwalkers was shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize, and is the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, French Prix Aujourd¹hui, Cundill Recognition of Excellence Prize, Bruno Kreisky Prize for Political Literature and the Braunschweiger Geschichtspreis.

Recenzii

In recent decades, many analysts had tended to put most blame for the disaster [of the First World War] on Germany. Clark strongly renews an older interpretation which sees the statesmen of many countries as blundering blindly together into war
Easily the best book ever written on the subject ... A work of rare beauty that combines meticulous research with sensitive analysis and elegant prose. The enormous weight of its quality inspires amazement and awe ... Academics should take note: Good history can still be a good story
A lovingly researched work of the highest scholarship. It is hard to believe we will ever see a better narrative of what was perhaps the biggest collective blunder in the history of international relations
[Reading The Sleepwalkers], it is as if a light had been turned on a half-darkened stage of shadowy characters cursing among themselves without reason ... [Clark] demolishes the standard view ... The brilliance of Clark's far-reaching history is that we are able to discern how the past was genuinely prologue ... In conception, steely scholarship and piercing insights, his book is a masterpiece
Impeccably researched, provocatively argued and elegantly written ... a model of scholarship
Superb ... effectively consigns the old historical consensus to the bin ... It's not often that one has the privilege of reading a book that reforges our understanding of one of the seminal events of world history
A monumental new volume ... Revelatory, even revolutionary ... Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable
Superb ... One of the great mysteries of history is how Europe's great powers could have stumbled into World War I ... This is the single best book I have read on this important topic
A meticulously researched, superbly organized, and handsomely written account
Clark is a masterly historian ... His account vividly reconstructs key decision points while deftly sketching the context driving them ... A magisterial work
This compelling examination of the causes of World War I deserves to become the new standard one-volume account of that contentious subject
A brilliant contribution
Clark is fully alive to the challenges of the subject ... He provides vivid portraits of leading figures ... [He] also gives a rich sense of what contemporaries believed was at stake in the crises leading up to the war

Descriere

The pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War, from acclaimed historian and author Christopher Clark
FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014
SUNDAY TIMES and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012
Winner of the Los Angeles Times History Book Prize 2014

The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule and it created a powerful new Serbia, but it also brought down four great empires, killed millions of men and destroyed a civilization. What made a seemingly prosperous and complacent Europe so vulnerable to the impact of this assassination?
In The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark retells the story of the outbreak of the First World War and its causes. Above all, it shows how the failure to understand the seriousness of the chaotic, near genocidal fighting in the Balkans would drag Europe into catastrophe.
Reviews:
'Formidable ... one of the most impressive and stimulating studies of the period ever published' Max Hastings, Sunday Times
'Easily the best book ever written on the subject ... A work of rare beauty that combines meticulous research with sensitive analysis and elegant prose. The enormous weight of its quality inspires amazement and awe ... Academics should take note: Good history can still be a good story' Washington Post
'A lovingly researched work of the highest scholarship. It is hard to believe we will ever see a better narrative of what was perhaps the biggest collective blunder in the history of international relations' Niall Ferguson
'[Reading The Sleepwalkers], it is as if a light had been turned on a half-darkened stage of shadowy characters cursing among themselves without reason ... [Clark] demolishes the standard view ... The brilliance of Clark's far-reaching history is that we are able to discern how the past was genuinely prologue ... In conception, steely scholarship and piercing insights, his book is a masterpiece' Harold Evans, New York Times Book Review
'Impeccably researched, provocatively argued and elegantly written ... a model of scholarship' Sunday Times Books of the Year
'Superb ... effectively consigns the old historical consensus to the bin ... It's not often that one has the privilege of reading a book that reforges our understanding of one of the seminal events of world history' Mail Online
'A monumental new volume ... Revelatory, even revolutionary ... Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable' Boston Globe
'Superb ... One of the great mysteries of history is how Europe's great powers could have stumbled into World War I ... This is the single best book I have read on this important topic' Fareed Zakaria
'A meticulously researched, superbly organized, and handsomely written account Military History
Clark is a masterly historian ... His account vividly reconstructs key decision points while deftly sketching the context driving them ... A magisterial work' Wall Street Journal
'This compelling examination of the causes of World War I deserves to become the new standard one-volume account of that contentious subject' Foreign Affairs
'A brilliant contribution' Times Higher Education
'Clark is fully alive to the challenges of the subject ... He provides vivid portraits of leading figures ... [He] also gives a rich sense of what contemporaries believed was at stake in the crises leading up to the war' Irish Times
'In recent decades, many analysts had tended to put most blame for the disaster [of the First World War] on Germany. Clark strongly renews an older interpretation which sees the statesmen of many countries as blundering blindly together into war' Stephen Howe, Independent Books of the Year
About the author:
Christopher Clark is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. He is the author of The Politics of Conversion, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Iron Kingdom. Widely praised around the world, Iron Kingdom became a major bestseller. He has been awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

On the morning of June 28, 1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sarajevo railway station, Europe was at peace. Thirty-seven days later, it was at war. The conflict that resulted would kill more than fifteen million people, destroy three empires, and permanently alter world history.
The Sleepwalkers reveals in gripping detail how the crisis leading to World War I unfolded. Drawing on fresh sources, it traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute, action-packed narrative that cuts among the key decision centers in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London, and Belgrade. Distinguished historian Christopher Clark examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914 and details the mutual misunderstandings and unintended signals that drove the crisis forward in a few short weeks.
How did the Balkans—a peripheral region far from Europe's centers of power and wealth—come to be the center of a drama of such magnitude? How had European nations organized themselves into opposing alliances, and how did these nations manage to carry out foreign policy as a result? Clark reveals a Europe racked by chronic problems—a fractured world of instability and militancy that was, fatefully, saddled with a conspicuously ineffectual set of political leaders. These rulers, who prided themselves on their modernity and rationalism, stumbled through crisis after crisis and finally convinced themselves that war was the only answer.
Meticulously researched and masterfully written, The Sleepwalkers is a magisterial account of one of the most compelling dramas of modern times.