Intimate History of Humanity, An

Zeldin, Theodore

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0060926910 ISBN 13 : 9780060926915

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 1995

An Intimate History of Humanity In this tour de force of the historian's art, Zeldin weaves the story of human history by focusing on feelings and showing how people and their intimate relationships have changed through the ages. "An intellectually dazzling view of our past and future".--Time magazine. Full description

Revue de presse :

"Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade" (Maggie Gee Daily Telegraph)

"One of the year's most original and outstanding books...fascinating labyrinths of history and human experience, which he perceptively, intructively and absorbingly explores. This is a read to relish" (Financial Times)

"Theodore Zeldin's all-embracing history of our feelings throughout the ages [is] brilliantly original and unsettling... His scope is dazzling... A seductive and unusually thought provoking book" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Bubbling wit... Zeldin makes life exciting for the reader. It is like being on some careering fair-ground ride that whirls you from one limelit fragment of civilisation to the next at breakneck speed...gatecrashing all the cultures of the world" (Spectator)

"It's the sort of book that will go on being famous long after we're all dead... If ever a volume deserved that overused ecomium "this book will change your life", it is this one" (Oxford Today)

Biographie de l'auteur :

Theodore Zeldin, educated at Birkbeck College London and Christ Church Oxford, is senior fellow of St Antony's College Oxford. He has been awarded the Wolfson Prize for History, been elected a member of the European Academy, and figures on the Magazine Littéraire's list of the hundred most important thinkers in the world today.