Big Questions In History
  • Published: 1 August 2006
  • ISBN: 9780099468462
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $32.99
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Big Questions In History

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A very distinguished group of historians answers key questions about the past - and, incidentally, about the present and future.

Drawing on examples ranging from ancient Greece to Tony Blair's Britain, leading historical thinkers address 20 of the really big questions that have been asked over the centuries about the course of human events.

Each essay is put into context by a more general commentary that discusses the differing views of other leading thinkers, today and in the past. The result is a stimulating ride over continents and across centuries in search of answers that are sometimes surprising, often controversial, and all of great relevance to how we live today.

Includes writing by: Richard. J. Evans, Ian Kershaw, Vernon Bogdanor, Fred Halliday, Thomas Palaima, Jeremy Black, Colin Renfrew, Anthony Pagden, Lisa Jardine, Sheila Rowbotham, Joanna Bourke, Benjamin Barber, Felipe Fernández-Armesto and others.
  • Published: 1 August 2006
  • ISBN: 9780099468462
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Harriet Swain

Harriet Swain worked as Deputy Features editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement and writes for the Guardian on education. She is editor of Big Questions in Science.

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Praise for Big Questions In History

This excellent collection of essays certainly lives up to the grand claim of its title. Unusual and highly successful. Quite possibly one of the best summaries of modern historical theory available

Good Book Guide

Liza Jardine, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Ian Kershaw, Richard Evans; some of the leading contemporary historians have been assembled in this innovative work. Enlightening little book. Learned yet accessible. Stimulating and thought-provoking

Glasgow Herald

Quizzing the world's best historians, this book finds answers to the most frequently asked questions about the course of world events. The results are sometimes unexpected but always relevant to how we live today

BMI Magazine