THE ORDEAL OF ELIZABETH MARSH: A WOMAN IN WORLD HISTORY
Book ID/图书代码： 11701207B14640
English Summary/英文概要： In this remarkable reconstruction of an eighteenth-century woman’s extraordinary and turbulent life, historian Linda Colley not only tells the story of Elizabeth Marsh, one of the most distinctive travellers of her time, but also opens a window onto a radically transforming world. Marsh was conceived in Jamaica, lived in London, Gibraltar, and Menorca, visited the Cape of Africa and Rio de Janeiro, explored eastern and southern India, and was held captive at the court of the sultan of Morocco. She was involved in land speculation in Florida and in international smuggling, and was caught up in three different slave systems. She was also a part of far larger histories.
Elizabeth Marsh’s lifetime saw new connections being forged across nations, continents, and oceans by war, empire, trade, navies, slavery, and print, and these developments shaped and distorted her own progress and the lives of those close to her.
Linda Colley brilliantly weaves together the personal and the epic in this compelling story of a woman in world history.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这个真实的故事要追溯到18世纪，全球的国际贸易和商业往来刚起步，当时的人们都尤为大胆，对到他国经商充满了幻想——这个时代恰逢美国独立战争，与印度之间的纠纷也处在水深火热之中，英、法两国之间也虎视眈眈...这就是这个故事特殊的时代背景。
Elizabeth Marsh是位十分特别的女性，她出生于英国朴茨茅斯一个海军世家，在葡萄牙的海边被人绑架了，被摩洛哥君主做了人质，然后嫁给了在监狱一直陪伴她左右的男人，接着随他先后到了牙买加、印度...在印度的加尔各答，Elizabeth的丈夫成了一名商人，Elizabeth厌倦了与他一起东奔西跑的日子，有很长的一段时间都过着混混噩噩的日子，所有的这些她都记在了日记本里..然后Elizabeth又回到了加尔各答，并在那里定居了下来，而她丈夫的生意最后却以破产而告终，Elizabeth后半生的日子里主要都忙于为她的女儿找个好归宿。
Awards/获奖情况："This is a remarkable book, both for its contents and because it is a new species of biography... Linda Colley has written a full-blown economic romance with an extraordinary range... bringing all the resources of her skills as a historian and researcher to her story. It is a major achievement and an enthralling narrative."
--Claire Tomalin, "The Guardian
"A work of skewering historical precision and vast imaginative reach... Colley’s style of irreproachable clarity makes light work of the global complexities of her story. Her synthesis of the facts is masterly... Her book is both moving and profound."
--Hilary Mantel, "London Review of Books
"A refreshing and often startling narrative that opens fresh perspectives on a revolutionary era. "The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh "shifted my understanding of the eighteenth-century world."
--Linda K. Kerber, author of "No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship
"Colley has had to piece together fragments of information from all kinds of sources; the result is a minor miracle of biographical reconstruction... Slave revolts in Jamaica, Moroccan politics, cod-fishing in the Shetlands, Manx smuggling, the responsibilities of naval wives, the organization of the salt industry in Bengal: all this, and more, is exposed to view."
--Noel Malcolm, The Sunday Telegraph
"She has turned on its head the convention of traditional biography, in which political and economic forces are analysed in order to elucidate our understanding of the subject, in favour of using an individual story to illustrate our global past. The most fascinating p arts are Colley’s brilliant, eclectic asides: intellectual seasoning on the motivations of migration, or the role of the Navy in the expansion of empire, or the class constraints on women’s travel writing" Andrea Stuart, The Independent
"A dazzling performance of historical scholarship. . . . [Colley has] brought us a world in a book."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Vivid. . . . Marsh’s extraordinarily peripatetic life illuminates not only the vast global changes of that period . . . but also the almost limitless resources of her own indomitable spirit."
--The New Yorker
"Colley allows the reader to vault the pioneering life of an obscure woman . . . into a grander tale of physical hardiness and surprising moral choices"--The Economist
About the Author/作者介绍： Linda Colley是美国普林斯顿大学历史教授。她1972年毕业于布里斯托大学，1977年从剑桥大学获得了博士学位。她另著有《In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-1760》、《Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837》、《Captives》等历史书籍，受到业内人士的一致好评。
Linda Colley, the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History, is an expert on Britain since 1700. she graduated from Bristol University with First Class Honors in history (1972) and completed her Ph.D. in history at Cambridge University (1977).
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