An Intimate History of Humanity - Hardcover

Theodore Zeldin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1856194728 ISBN 13: 9781856194723

Publisher: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

This study examines the dilemmas of modern life, aiming to show how they need not have arisen. Portraits of living people, alongside historical figures from all civilizations, reveal many untried options. Topics discussed include: loneliness; new forms of love; respect versus power; and travel.

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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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Edition details

• Publisher: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1856194728
• ISBN 13: 9781856194723
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480