Essays on utopianism, cultural history, relativism, fascism, romanticism, and nationalism.
History of the human race from the point of view of mankind's changing ideas--sociological, cosmological, philosophica.
Cultuurgeschiedenis van Europa in de periode 1680-1715.
"By 1300 medieval men and women were beginning to measure multitude, counting, for example, numbers of boys and girls being baptized. Their mental capacity to grapple with population, to get its measure, was developing, and this book describes how medieval people thought about p…
"By 1300 medieval men and women were beginning to measure multitude, counting, for example, numbers of boys and girls being baptized. Their mental capacity to grapple with population, to get its measure, was developing, and this book describes how medieval people thought about p…
"Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than sixty essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full bre…
