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深蓝底色上的一束光线中,一面米字旗正在飘落,这是上海人民出版社出版的《帝国斜阳》一书的封面,寓意大英帝国的衰落。英国人布赖恩·拉平英文原作的名字“帝国的终结”(Een of Empire),中文译名添了点儿悲凉的诗意。20世纪是殖民帝国终结的世纪,而大英帝国的衰落是终结过程中最有代表性的,拉平的《帝国斜阳》记录的正是从1947年印度独立至1980年南罗得西亚独立这33年间大英帝国终结的历史。殖民帝国终结的历史,同样是民族独立的历史,这是20世纪的百年史书上极为重要的篇章。拉平先生是新闻记者,又曾在剑桥受过正规的历史学教育,如译者之一的钱乘旦先生所说,拉平先生按写历史的规范写下这部书,既使用了许多档案文件,又使用了采访中的记录,其学术价值已不同一般,而其记者的笔触又使全书呵然一气,读起来十分生动,成为近年英帝国史研究的一部杰作。回首历史,在20世纪之前的几个世纪中,大西洋沿岸的欧洲国家凭借经济和军事实力征服了世界广大地区,它们中的每一个都代表着一个帝国,大英帝国、法兰
A beam of light on a dark blue background, one side of the rice flag is falling, this is the Shanghai People’s Publishing House published “Empire of the sun,” a book covers the decline of the British Empire. British Brian Liping English name of the original “End of the Empire” (Een of Empire), the Chinese translation adds a bit sad poetic. The twentieth century is the end of the colonial empire century, and the decline of the British Empire is the most representative of the end of the process, the flattened “Empire of the sun” is recorded from India’s independence in 1947 to independence in Southern Rhodesia in 1980, 33 years The history of the end of the British Empire. The end of colonial empire history is also the history of national independence, which is an extremely important chapter in the 20th century centuries-old history books. Mr. Liping, a journalist, also had a formal history education in Cambridge. As one of the translators, Mr. Qian said, Mr. Luping wrote the book according to the norms of writing history, using many archives, But also used the records in the interview. Its academic value has been different, and the brushwork of its reporters made the book breathless and very vivid to read. It has become a masterpiece in the study of British imperial history in recent years. Looking back on history, in the centuries before the twentieth century, European countries on the Atlantic coast conquered vast areas of the world on the basis of economic and military power, each of which represented an empire, the British Empire,