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"In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialis…
"In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialis…
"In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialis…
"In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum mechanics, the id, existentialis…
Este libro está recorrido de principio a fin por la memoria de los acontecimientos que convierten el siglo xx en el más terrible período de la historia de los hombres. No pretende ser perspectiva ni balance, sino meditación obstinada y narración inédita de lo que, desde 1914, ha…
The Year of Our Lord 1943 tells the story of how five Christian intellectuals - Jacques Maritain, T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, W.H. Auden, and Simone Weil - sought to provide a plan for the moral and spiritual renewal of the Western democracies in the post-World War II world.
"By early 1943, it had become increasingly clear that the Allies would win the Second World War. Around the same time, it also became increasingly clear to many Christian intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic that the soon-to-be-victorious nations were not culturally or mo…
The inspiration for this book comes from the words of Adam Smith: 'Consumption is the sole end of and purpose of all production ... ' This book concentrates, in that spirit, on people rather on things; it describes the overall income and wealth of Britain, its growth, and how th…
Annotation Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, "I know of no other account that sheds as much light on what is now behind us, and thereby casts so much illuminati…
[The author is an] historian ... [He] takes us from Britain to the countries and cultures of Europe, to America (which he appreciated first through movies and jazz), to Latin America, Chile, India, and the Far East. With [this book], we see the history of the twentieth century t…