康沃利斯：革命世界中的士兵和政治家[有声读物]

这是查尔斯·康沃利斯40年来的第一部传记，他是一名军人、州长和政治家，其职业生涯覆盖了美国、印度、英国和爱尔兰。查尔斯是康沃利斯的第一任侯爵（1738-1805），是18世纪末英国的一位重要人物。他的职业生涯跨越了美国独立战争、爱尔兰联盟、法国革命战争，以及在印度建立第二个大英帝国——长期以来，他一直与英国殖民历史令人无法接受的面貌联系在一起。在这本生动的新传记中，理查德·米德尔顿（Richard Middleton）指出，这幅肖像远非准确。
康沃利斯以改革者的身份出现，他对那些在他领导下的人有着深刻的同情心，并且清楚自己有义务公正地治理国家。他试图用成文法宪法保护孟加拉人民，坚持在爱尔兰解放天主教，并承认美国战争后英国权力的局限性。米德尔顿揭示了康沃利斯对功绩的奖励、对经济的追求和对腐败的消除是如何帮助英国政府改善了19世纪的体制的。
Cornwallis: Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World [Audiobook]
The first biography of Charles Cornwallis in 40 years – the soldier, governor, and statesman whose career covered America, India, Britain, and Ireland. Charles, first marquis of Cornwallis (1738-1805), was a leading figure in late 18th-century Britain. His career spanned the American War of Independence, Irish Union, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the building of the Second British Empire in India – and he has long been associated with the unacceptable face of Britain’s colonial past. In this vivid new biography, Richard Middleton shows that this portrait is far from accurate.
Cornwallis emerges as a reformer who had deep empathy for those under his authority and was clear about his obligation to govern justly. He sought to protect the population of Bengal with a constitution of written laws, insisted on Catholic emancipation in Ireland, and recognized the limitations of British power after the American war. Middleton reveals how Cornwallis’ rewarding of merit, search for economy, and elimination of corruption helped improve the machinery of British government into the 19th century.

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