An Intimate History of Humanity

'Theodore Zeldin's all-embracing history of our feelings through the ages [is] brilliantly original and unsettling... A seductive and unusually thought provoking book' Sunday Telegraph

Daily TelegraphA History of French PassionsThe French Zusammenfassung a constant companion' Bill Bailey'Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade' The Daily TelegraphThis extraordinarily wide-ranging study looks at the dilemmas of life today and shows how they need not have arisen.

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.

Texte du rabat

Historian Theodore Zeldin writes about the history of feelings, habits, emotions and perceptions. He views the past from a new and fresh perspective, investigating the feelings of human beings through time, from the Vikings and Aztecs to contemporary hypochondriacs, and the problems of ordinary life. "Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade" Maggie Gee, >Daily TelegraphA History of French PassionsThe French<. Minerva.

Résumé
a constant companion' Bill Bailey'Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade' The Daily TelegraphThis extraordinarily wide-ranging study looks at the dilemmas of life today and shows how they need not have arisen.