BIG QUESTIONS IN HISTORY; ED. BY HARRIET SWAIN.
Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE; Jonathan Cape; Jonathan Cape Ltd
Published: 2005
Place of publication: LONDON
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 280
Description: Drawing on examples ranging from ancient Greece to Tony Blair's Britain, leading historical thinkers address twenty 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.