Martyrdom of Man
Author: first_name: (William) Winwood
last_name: Reade
Language: English
Year: 1872

William Winwood Reade (1838 - 1875) was a British historian, explorer, and philosopher.<br><br>

His most famous work, the Martyrdom of Man (1872)—whose summary running head reads "From Nebula to Nation"—is a secular, "universal" history of the Western world. Structurally, it is divided into four "chapters" of approximately 150 pages each: the first chapter, "War", discusses the imprisonment of men's bodies, the second, "Religion", that of their minds, the third, "Liberty", is the closest thin