An Intimate History of Humanity
Theodore Zeldin(Author)
Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd (Publisher)
Book
Paperback/Softback
488 pages
978-1-85619-594-2 (ISBN)
Description
This wide-ranging study looks at the dilemmas of life today and shows how they need not have arisen. Portraits of living people and historical figures are placed alongside each other. Zeldin discusses how men and women have lost and regained hope, how they have learnt to have interesting conversations, how some have acquired an immunity to loneliness, how new forms of love and desire have been invented, how respect has become more valued than power, how the art of escaping from one's troubles has developed, why even the privileged are often gloomy, why parents and children are changing their minds about what they want from each other.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85619-594-2 (9781856195942)
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Schweitzer Classification