CITY OF LONDON: THE HISTORY
Book ID/图书代码： 11701212B52293
English Summary/英文概要： The ’Square Mile’, London’s financial powerhouse, rose to prominence with the defeat of Napoleon in 1815. David Kynaston’s vibrant history brings this world to life, taking us from the railway boom of the 1830s to the ’Golden Age’, when the legendary gold standard reigned supreme. Between the two World Wars the City was affected by the Wall Street Crash, pressured by politicians, trade unions and industrialists, but by the end of the twentieth century it had regained a precarious global might.
Woven throughout are the stories of four individuals who shaped the City in different ways - Nathan Rothschild, Ernest Cassel, Montagu Norman and Siegmund Warburg. But the realm of great bankers and brokers is also the workplace of young clerks throwing paper darts, typists bringing in their sandwiches, and sad racketeers watching aghast as the markets fall. Above all, we see what it was like to work in the City - the dress codes, eating habits, work hours, pay, humour, changing architecture and language that forged the unique culture of the Square Mile. Richly entertaining, full of vivid anecdotes, this is a story of booms, busts and bankruptcies - from the Kaffir boom to the Marconi scandal, the ’Big Bang’ deregulation of 1986, and the Barings crash in 1995 - bringing us to the brink of the modern age.
David Knayston’s groundbreaking history of the City of London, published in four volumes between 1994 and 2001, is a modern classic. Skillfully edited into a single volume by David Milner, it tells a story as dramatic as any novel, while explaining the mysteries of the financial world in a way that we can all understand.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： “Square Mile”，作为伦敦的财务发电厂，随着在1815年打败拿破仑，发展为一个巨头。David Kynaston的振动人心的历史给世界带来新的活力，把我们从19世纪30年代铁路的繁荣带到了“黄金时期”，即传奇式的黄金标准统治最高峰。在这两场世界大战中，这个城市被华尔街的衰败所影响，被政治家们、商业联盟及工业家们所打压，但是到了20世纪末，它已重新获得一个不稳定的全球化的威力。
织物贯穿全书是4个用不同方式塑造这个城市的人之间的故事，这四个人是Nathan Rothschild,Ernest Cassel,Montagu Norman和Siegmund Warburg。但是那些大银行家和经纪人的领域也是扔纸飞镖的年轻职员、带来三明治的打字员以及悲伤的看着市场衰落的投机者的工作场所。最重要的是，我们看到在这个城市所起作用的东西---裙子代号，饮食习惯，工时，开销，幽默，变化着的建筑物及铸造了Square Mile的独特文化的语言。丰富多彩的娱乐，生动的趣闻轶事，这是个繁荣，衰败，破产的故事----从Kaffir的繁荣到Marconi的丑闻，Big Bang1986年的反常，Barings1995年的衰败-----把我们带到现代的边缘。
David Knayston 的惊人的伦敦城的历史，在1994和2001年间出版了四册，是现代的杰作。这部书被大卫熟练地编辑入册，讲述了如同任何一部小说般戏剧化的故事，然而又用一种我们都能理解的方式解释了财政世界的奥秘。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：David Kynaston是英国近来过去的伟大历史记录者......这个新的单册版本是最易于理解的切入点，服务于那些想理解伦敦的财政业如何在过去两个世纪里发展的人.-Hamish McRae,星期日独立报
每个人应该阅读下David Kynaston的这座城市的吸引人的历史：一个太重要而不得不离开奔向银行家的主题.
没人比David Kynaston更了解伦敦城的秘密...关于老城公司或者在暖房的会议室的铜板印刷正面的背后发展情况。-Peter Oborne, 周日快报
这个故事从不晦涩，因为Kynaston讲述它就像是在讲述人类戏剧...这是经济历史，有着众多闪光点。Simon Jenkins, 泰晤士报
有权威的......Kynaston是禁不住地可读，关于整个城市的丑闻。—William Keegan, 观察家
About the Author/作者介绍： David Kynaston1951年生于Aldershot。从New College Oxford毕业后，他在London School of Economics学习。作为一个专业的历史学家，除了这四卷的The City of London，他的作品还包括King Labour：英国工薪阶层的历史(1850-1914),财政时代的历史以及持股人Cazenove & co.，头二册关于英国的预想历史（在1945年与1979年间），Austerity Britain（1945-51）与Family Britain（1951-57）。 David Milner，作为这册书的编辑，生于1971年，在大学里的毕业生工作完后，他成为了在Random House的Secker & Warburg工作的一名编辑。他现在为领先出版家工作，作为一名自由编辑，和他的妻子及2个孩子生活在Cotswolds。
David Kynaston was born in Aldershot in 1951. After graduating from New College Oxford, he studied at the London School of Economics. A professional historian, in addition to the four-volume The City of London, his works include King Labour: A History of the British Working Class, 1850-1914, histories of the Financial Times and the stockbrokers Cazenove & co., and the first two volumes in a planned history of Britain between 1945 and 1979, Austerity Britain, 1945-51 and Family Britain, 1951-57.
David Milner, editor of this volume, was born in 1971. After postgraduate work at university he became an editor for Secker & Warburg at Random House. He now works as a freelance editor for leading publishers, and lives in the Cotswolds with his wife and two children.
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