An Intimate History of Humanity - Softcover

Zeldin, Theodore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006017160X ISBN 13: 9780060171605

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1995

Synopsis

An unusual and thought-provoking history of humankind traces the evolution of emotions and personal relationships through the ages and among diverse cultures, discussing such varied topics as the art of conversation, inter-gender friendships, lifestyles, and cookery.

About this title

About the Author:

Theodore Zeldin is senior fellow at St. Anthony's College, Oxford.

From Library Journal:

This groundbreaking book by an internationally renowned historian and prolific author is so wide-ranging in scope that categorizing the various issues and audiences it seeks to address would be difficult. Implicit in Zeldin's work is a challenge to traditional historians who have heretofore pigeonholed their accounts of the human past into discrete cubicles (social, economic, political history, etc.). By contrast, Zeldin attempts a history of human thoughts and feelings unfettered by considerations of historical epoch or culture. Each chapter focuses on a particular thought or feeling, such as toil, the art of conversation, voluntarism, compassion, attitudes on class and social status, and authority. To organize his ideas, Zeldin employs a masterful new technique. After introducing each chapter with a personal vignette based on interviews he has conducted with individuals musing on the meaning of some aspect of their lives, Zeldin traces changes or commonalities in that feeling across time and place. General readers will be inspired by this thought-provoking and immensely readable work.?Marie Marmo Mullaney, Caldwell Coll., N.J.
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 006017160X
• ISBN 13: 9780060171605
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 488