The Black Hole: Money, Myth and Empire (平装)
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品牌: Jan Dalley
基本信息出版社:Penguin (2007年7月26日)平装:240页正文语种:英语ISBN:0141014997条形码:9780141014999产品尺寸及重量:19.4 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm ; 182 gASIN:0141014997
商品描述内容简介The story of the Black Hole of Calcutta was once drilled into every British schoolchild: how in 1756 the Nawab of Bengal attacked Fort William and locked the survivors in a tiny cell, where over a hundred souls died in insufferable heat. British retribution was swift and merciless, and led to much of India falling completely under colonial dominion. "The Black Hole" is the story of the propagation of a myth that arose as the British Empire came into being: a myth about the barbarism of a people the colonials sought to rule, and how that myth - based on improbable exaggeration and half-truth - helped justify the march of empire for two hundred years.媒体推荐'Dalley has unearthed company records, letters and historians' speculations to produce a vivid and damning account of the city's fall' The Times'Combining compelling narrative with impressive insight, [this] is an immensely enjoyable read' The Spectator'Dalley has written a quite brilliant book: fascinating, gripping, insightful and, above all, even-handed' The Telegraph'Imperial history at its best' Sunday Times'An imaginative and forensically relentless examination' Independent on Sunday