PHANTOM TERROR: POLITICAL PARANOIA AND THE CREATION OF THE MODERN STATE, 1789-1848
Book ID/图书代码： 00200014B73746
English Summary/英文概要： A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to police the world in a struggle against obscure forces, seemingly dedicated to the overthrow of civilisation.
The French Revolution and the blood-curdling violence it engendered terrified the ruling and propertied classes of Europe. Unable to grasp how such horrors could have come about, many concluded that it was the result of a devilish conspiracy hatched by Freemasons inspired by the ideas of the Enlightenment with the aim of overthrowing the entire social order, along with the legal and religious principles it stood on. Others traced it back to the Reformation or the Knights Templar and ascribed even more sinister aims to it.
Faced by this apparently occult threat, they resorted to repression on an unprecedented scale, expanding police and spy networks in the process. Napoleon managed to contain the revolutionary elements in France and those parts of Europe he controlled, but while many welcomed this, others saw in him no more than the spawn of the Revolution, propagating its doctrines by other means. After his defeat at Waterloo in 1815, his victors united to maintain the old order, suppress of all opposition, and ferret out of the conspirators whom they believed to be plotting mayhem and murder in the shadows.
In this ground-breaking study best-selling historian Adam Zamoyski exposes their pusillanimous yet cynical recourse to the police spy and the bayonet, which only intensified their own fears and pushed ordinary people towards subversion, building up the pressure of opposition to their rule.
When it came, with the revolutions of 1848, the dreaded cataclysm revealed their fears to have been groundless; the masses stirred into revolt by hunger and oppressive living conditions were leaderless and easily pacified. There never had been any conspiracy. But the police were there to stay, and the paradigm of an order threatened by dark forces is also still with us today. This compelling history, occasionally chilling and often hilarious, tells how the modern state evolved through the expansion of its organs of control, and holds urgent lessons for today.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 基于对恐怖，颠覆，镇压和间谍活动的大量而周期性的历史研究，Adam Zamoyski阐释了欧洲政府对那些似乎是要摧毁文明的恐怖势力所做的斗争的尝试。
法国大革命以及由此产生的暴力主义威胁着法国的秩序和有产阶级的利益。不能准确的把握这些恐怖主义是如何发生的，但是大量的证据表明，这是与由共济会发起的旨在推翻法律和宗教秩序赖以存在的整个社会秩序有关。也有人将这些原因追溯到早期圣殿骑士的革命，或许有着比推翻世界秩序更高的阴谋。
面对那些隐藏的威胁，他们采取了前所未有的压制措施，并在这个过程中扩大警务力量和和间谍网络。拿破仑设法收集法国和在他控制之下的其他欧洲地区的革命因素，在很多人支持的同时，反对的人认为拿破仑只不过在用另外的一种方式来传播他自己的革命。在1815年兵败滑铁卢之后，胜利的一方联合起来维护旧的秩序，压制任何的反对声音，并从那种被阴谋陷害和谋杀的阴影中走了出来。
基于这样的突破性研究，作为畅销书作者的历史学家Adam Zamoyski指出，正是由于他们自身的胆怯才诉诸于庞大的警察间谍体系和武器，而这样只会让事情越发糟糕，它将普通的老百姓推向了反面，老百姓不得不建立另外的一种强大的力量来对抗他们。
当这一切真的伴随着1848年革命到来的时候，他们发现他们的担忧是没有根据的，那些被饥饿和压迫而自发搅入进来的人民显得那样群龙无首，并且极易平息下去。这里也从来没有过什么阴谋存在。虽然有警戒力量的存在，但是社会秩序被黑暗势力冲击的例子依然存在我们当今的社会里。这段时常引人关注的历史，告诉了我们一个现代的国家是如何国家机器的扩展来处理紧急事务的。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：Zamoyski doesn’t go heavy on it, but the parallel between the police states and the authoritarianism that followed in the wake of the French Revolution most certainly resembles what we are living post 9/11. The author is a good historian, solid and true, writing well. The lessons will prove salutary to anyone with an interest in the aftermath of the events of 1789 in France, or who cares whither we go now, trailing the ill begotten legacy of our panicked overreaction to 9/11.
About the Author/作者介绍： Adam Zamoyski 出生在纽约，曾求学于牛津，在伦敦和波兰生活。他是一位专职作家，出版的书籍包括《帕德雷夫斯基》，《末代波兰国王》，以及荣登“星期天时报”畅销书排行榜的《1812：拿破仑的莫斯科致命之旅》，《和平祭礼：拿破仑的失败和维也纳会议》，《波兰1920》，《肖邦》。Adam Zamoyski和画家Emma Sergeant结婚。
Adam Zamoyski was born in New York, was educated at Oxford, and lives in London and Poland. A full-time writer, his books include ‘Paderewski’, ‘The Last King of Poland’,‘1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow’, which was a Sunday Times bestseller, ‘Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna’, ‘Warsaw 1920’ and ‘Chopin’. He is married to the painter Emma Sergeant.
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