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： 对于18世纪后期的执政者和有产阶级而言，法国大革命之后的那些年他们被强烈的焦虑缠绕。君主及其臣子生活在对叛乱的持续恐惧中，认为他们的权力和性命都处于危险之中。在他们自己偏执的想法推动下，他们选择通过监控网络、暴力手段和秘密警察镇压所有的威胁和叛乱，无论这些威胁和叛乱是真 实的还是虚幻的。从此，欧洲乃至整个世界，进入一个新的时代。
在《幻影恐惧》中，屡获殊荣的历史学家亚当•查莫斯基认为，旨在防止动乱的严厉措施产生了灾难性的和深远的影响。正是这些措施激起了那些他们想要去镇压的叛乱。到这一时代结束的时候，在整个欧洲大陆，恐怖运动的第一次萌动已然十分明显。欧洲君主们的担心终于成为自我实现的预言。
《幻影恐惧》探索这个麻烦不断而又引人入胜的时代，从埃德蒙•伯克到玛丽•雪莱的政治家和文化领袖被迫选边站，他们要么支持，要么反对蕴含在新生全能集权国家中的反革命精神。这个时期的政治动荡形势将直接导致1848年的革命和第一次世界大战中秩序的崩塌。我们仍然生活在这一政治妄想时代的遗产之下。这些怀疑和镇压的狂暴岁月是欧洲历史接下来发展的关键。在查莫斯基对这段专横的历史时刻的记载中，绝望的君主逼着世界走上了革命、恐怖和世界大战之路。(DB)
Awards/获奖情况：充满才华和原创力。——《经济学家》
查莫斯基的写作极富天赋，充满奇思妙想，尤其擅长讲述关于俄罗斯的故事。——《大西洋月刊》
查莫斯基对荒谬的审查制度和无能警察的敏锐观察及其精彩刻画，定会让读者停不下来。——《现代史期刊》（Journal of Modern History）
查莫斯基展示了暴政是怎样带来这些触目惊心、荒诞无稽的可怕结果……这是一个精彩纷呈的故事。——《泰晤士报》.
（这本书讲述了一段）从1789年到1848年国家管制在欧洲日益加强的历史……从作者对国家审查、监视、暴行的客观记述中，我们可以看出查莫斯基对于政治史和国际关系令人印象深刻的独到见解。在他看来，是这些暴政本身最终引来了不断的革命反抗。——《华尔街日报》
这本经勤勉研究、完美撰写的学术著作论点丰富，让人十分信服。亚当•查莫斯基为反动的欧洲正统王朝专制提供了确凿的案例，华丽的贵族式辞藻也恰如其分地将其表现了出来。他在这个过程中将一整队不可侵犯的人物带进了历史的屠宰场。毫无疑问，这是一段修正主义的历史。——安德鲁•罗伯茨，著有《战争风云:第二次世界大战新史》
亚当•查莫斯基凭借独有的资质，优雅地剖析了紧接着法国大革命而产生的偏执、疑惧和阴谋论。他描绘出这个年代里现代警察国家的诞生，欧洲专制主义的起源以及后来我们所谓的阶级斗争的起点。《幻影恐惧》是一部及时的原创性历史书，它是一部通往过去的指南，同时也让人对当今有所反思。——安妮•阿普尔鲍姆，著作《古拉格：一部历史》，获普利策奖
一部令人印象极为深刻的重要著作。《幻影恐惧》具有学术性，文字优美而富有趣味，在纵览革命时代的反动欧洲过程中，几乎每一页都有令人赞叹的洞见。——奥兰多•菲吉斯，著有《俄国革命史:1891-1991》
极具吸引力……充满了引人入胜的细节和鲜明的旁白。亚当•查莫斯基像宫廷舞会的舞者一样书写：优雅、高贵、技艺精湛、步履稳健。——英国《旁观者》杂志
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： 亚当•查莫斯基关于波兰、拿破仑和十九世纪欧洲的多部作品荣获奖项。他是古文物协会、皇家文艺学会和皇家文学学会的会员。查莫斯基住在伦敦。
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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