Brief History Of History
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What Daniel Boorstin did for science in The Discoverers,
Timothy Ferris for cosmology in Coming of Age in the
Milky Way, and Robert Heilbroner for economics in The
Worldly Philosophers, Colin Wells now does for history in
A Brief History of History. The most accessible, concise,
and clear-sighted biography ever of history as a living
idea, this book brings together evocative sketches of the
great historians with concise summaries of their key
works. From its humble origins as a minor literary genre
in ancient Greece, to its modern-day status as perhaps
the most successful monument to the global spread of
Western civilization, Wells traces the remarkable
evolution of this branch of knowledge, and shows how it
has long been the turf on which we fight our culture
wars.
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