THE ASHGATE RESEARCH COMPANION TO MODERN IMPERIAL HISTORIES
Book ID/图书代码： 00870015B83753
English Summary/英文概要： Written by leading scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of modern empires.
Spanning the era of modern imperial history from the early sixteenth century to the present, it challenges both the rather
insular focuses on specific experiences, and gives due attention to imperial formations outside the West including the
Russian, Japanese, Mughal, Ottoman and Chinese.
The companion is divided into three broad sections. Part I - Times - surveys the three main eras of modern imperialism.
The first was that dominated by the settlement impulse, with migrants - many voluntarily and many more by force - making
new lives in the colonies. This impulse gave way, most especially in the nineteenth century, to a period of busy and rapid
expansion which was less likely to promote new settlement, and in which colonists more frequently saw their sojourn in
colonial lands as temporary and related to the business mostly of governance and trade. Lastly, in the twentieth century in
particular, empires began to fail and to fall.
Part II - Spaces - studies the principal imperial formations of the modern world. Each chapter charts the experience of a
specific empire while at the same time placing it within the complex patterns of wider imperial constellations. The
individual chapters thus survey the broad dynamics of change within the empires themselves and their relationships with
other imperial formations, and reflect critically on the ways in which these topics have been approached in the literature.
In Part III - Themes - scholars think critically about some of the key features of imperial expansion and decline. These
chapters are brief and many are provocative. They reflect the current state of the field, and suggest new lines of inquiry
which may follow from more comparative perspectives on empire. The broad range of themes captures the vitality and
diversity of contemporary scholarship on questions of empire and colonialism, encompassing political, economic and
cultural processes central to the formation and maintenance of empires as well as institutions, ideologies and social
categories that shaped the lives both of those implementing and those experiencing the force of empire. In these pages
the reader will find the slave and the criminal, the merchant and the maid, the scientist and the artist alongside the
structures which sustained their lives and their livelihoods.
Overall, the companion emphasises the diversity of imperial experience and process. Comprehensive in its scope, it
draws attention to the particularities of individual empires, rather than over-generalising as if all empires, at all times, and
in all places, behaved in a similar manner. It is this contingent and historical specificity that enables us to explore in
expansive ways precisely what constituted the modern empire.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 该选集由学术界一流学者所著，旨在为读者们带来有关于现代帝国综合全面同时不乏权威的基本概览。书中对现代帝国历史的定义从十六世纪早期横跨至今，不仅挑战了以特定帝国经历为孤立视角的聚焦模式，同时对西方世界以外的帝国形成进行了考量，主要包括俄罗斯、日本、莫卧儿帝国、奥斯曼帝国以及中国。该指南主要由三大部分构成。第一部分-时间-主要对现代帝国的三个主要时期进行研究。
第一个时期的驱动力来源于移民们对于定居的冲动-其中许多是自愿定居，另一部分则是被动选择-从而在殖民地建立新生活。然而这种对于定居的冲动却逐渐被繁忙而迅速的扩张行为所淹没和取代，殖民者们更多的将他们在殖民地的居住生活看成是一种源于政府和商业贸易需求的临时行为，这一趋势在十九世纪尤为明显。最后一个时期为二十世纪，在这一阶段帝国这一形式的存在开始衰落与瓦解。
第二部分-空间-主要对现代世界的帝国形成进行研究。该部分的每一章节对一个特定帝国的经历进行详细叙述，同时将该帝国放置于更为错综复杂的世界帝国版图中进行考量。从而每个独立章节的研究都包含两部分，一是对其所研究帝国自身内部的各类变化力量进行研究考察，同时对该帝国与其他帝国形成的关系进行分析，并从多个角度辩证思考这些变化关系和主题在文学作品中是如何以不同方式进行呈现。
第三部分- 主题 -学者们对帝国扩张与衰败的主要相关课题进行了多角度辩证思考。该部分所含章节通常非常简明扼要，其中许多更是极富启发性。它们反映了该领域的现状，并且从更具比较意义的角度提出新的帝国问题。这些主题涵盖范围之广反映了当代学者在帝国与殖民主义相关问题研究上呈现出的活力与多样性，其中就帝国的形成和发展，一方面从较为核心的政治、经济和文化进程的角度进行观察，同时也从影响帝国力量执行者和承受者们人生的角度，对机构、意识形态及社会划分等因素进行分析。在这部分内容中，读者们将看到对奴隶、罪犯、商人、女仆、科学家以及艺术家们的叙述，帝国形式的存在同时也是他们生活与生计的主要来源。
综上所述，该指南着重关注帝国经历与进程的多样性。其内容构成综合全面，更关注不同帝国的个体特征，而非通常意义上对帝国形式的泛泛而谈，即将所有时期、不同地域的帝国都以一种类似的方式进行考察。事实上，正是本指南中对与帝国间相互关系和历史联系的独特聚焦，使得我们能够从更广泛的层面对究竟是什么促进了帝国的形成进行研究探讨。(DC)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 菲利帕·勒文教授，是美国德克萨斯州大学奥斯汀分校的一名教授。约翰·马里奥特是东伦敦大学拉斐尔·塞缪尔历史中心的一名教授。
Professor Philippa Levine, University of Texas at Austin, USA and Professor John Marriott, Raphael Samuel History
Centre at the University of East London, UK.
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