The Web of Profit: The Pacific World from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush(Chinese Edition)

[ MEI ] DAI WEI&amp#183; YI GE LAI ER . JIANG ZHI QIN . WANG JIA CUN YI

ISBN 10: 7213112171 / ISBN 13: 9787213112171

Published by Zhejiang People's Publishing House, 2024

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HardCover.Pub Date:2024-03 Pages:380 Language:Publisher:Historian David Eagle starts with the expansion of Pacific trade and vividly shows how navigators. merchants. trappers and indigenous people intertwined their destinies in the turbulent ocean world. which was not without violence and tragedy. Eagle describes in depth how indigenous people struggled under the ravages of foreign plagues. how the suffering experience of Russian Timofey Tarakanov typically revealed the common practice of tak.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Web of Profit: The Pacific World from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush(Chinese Edition)
• Publisher: Zhejiang People's Publishing House
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 7213112171
• ISBN 13: 9787213112171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

历史学家戴维·伊格莱尔从太平洋贸易的扩展入手,生动展示了航海家、商人、捕猎者和土著居民在风云际会的大洋世界中如何交织命运,其中不乏暴力与悲剧事件。伊格莱尔深入描述了土著居民如何在外来瘟疫的肆虐下苦苦挣扎,俄国人季莫费·塔拉卡诺夫的苦难经历如何典型地揭示掳掠人质和俘虏的普遍做法,玛丽·布鲁斯特如何目睹屠杀海豹、海狗和鲸鱼的血腥"大捕猎",以及詹姆斯·德怀特·达纳如何在知识追求上成为与查尔斯·达尔文并驾齐驱的人物。 这些精彩的故事以及它们所共同构建的历史主题,为人们提供了一个全新的视角来认识太平洋世界。本书视野广阔,结构宏大,开创性地描绘了太平洋世界,是首部将美国史、海洋史和世界史融汇在一起的著作。