Over the past seven years, historian and broadcaster Daniel Snowman has interviewed a selection of some of the finest historians alive. Historians is an anthology of the resulting critical essays and provides a revealing insight into how we currently regard the ever-shifting past.
Over the past seven years, historian and broadcaster Daniel Snowman has interviewed a selection of some of the finest historians alive. Historians is ...
As we approach the new millennium, we find ourselves reassessing the past and looking forward to the future. Has the prospect of a new century always provided a "sense of an ending"? In this timely and stimulating book, experts on every century since the fourteenth each explore the characteristics of a different final decade and find that a consciousness of time has indeed influenced the way people perceive their place in history. The writers--Paul Strohm on the 1390s (when signs of a new time consciousness first emerged), Malcolm Vale on the 1490s, Ian Archer on the 1590s, Peter Earle on...
As we approach the new millennium, we find ourselves reassessing the past and looking forward to the future. Has the prospect of a new century always ...
Over the past seven years, historian and broadcaster Daniel Snowman has interviewed a selection of some of the finest historians alive. Historians is an anthology of the resulting critical essays and provides a revealing insight into how we currently regard the ever-shifting past.
Over the past seven years, historian and broadcaster Daniel Snowman has interviewed a selection of some of the finest historians alive. Historians is ...