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Intimate History of Humanity, An
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by Theodore Zeldin
Sales Rank: 125164
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 496 pages
Published by: Harper Perennial December 1, 1995
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0060926910
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0060926915
Book Dimensions:
7.9 x 5.4 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 13.4 ounces
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.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Product Review
Just published in paperback, this is one of the most remarkable books I have ever read, part cultural history, part user's guide to life. Zeldin trawls an amazing range of forgotten or neglected wisdoms and brings them to bear on current preoccupations with a series of questions that might seem half-frivolous ('why has more progress been made in the art of cooking than in the art of sex?'), but which culminate in an illuminating, essentially optimistic picture of the gradual growth of our capacity to be truly humane. (Kirkus UK)
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Reader Reviews
Everyone who's interested in history honors those who have lived in the past, how they have come to unique solutions to solve their problems. We try to guard against what C.S. Lewis calls "chronological snobbery" -- the notion that just because we were born later, we necessarily are smarter and wiser than those who have gone before us. The older I get, the more I'm convinced that the ancients had it right all along. And this book is a powerful antidote against chronological snobbery. Aside from being truly uplifting, it's encouraging to see how people have faced, and overcome, dilemmas similar to our own. To see the many ways they have solved those problems is fascinating and liberating. My only regret is that this book has received far too little attention. The scope is so wide ranging, the range of fascinating tiny details so vast, that it's difficult to review, and impossible to summarize, at least with my paltry expository skills. So just read it! And spread the word!
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