Name: An Intimate History of Humanity
ISBN: 9780749396237

Theodore Zeldin

"This internationally acclaimed investigation of emotions and personal relationships shows how people, past and present, escape from loneliness, fear and aimlessness, find new forms of affection and adventure, can avoid being prisoners of their memories or mistakes." - backc over.

An Intimate History of Humanity

Reiza H

An interesting collection of stories. Each of them resonates with the idea that to be a human, means to cater and acknowledge each feelings that comes to our hearts and mind.

This is not a world history book, but rather, it offers a window to track the roots of our collective feelings through written journals of previous civilizations and heroes but mostly…ordinary citizens who struggles with the same feelings and emotions.

I guess that’s my take from the book (obviously it was more than this)

Arno

Amro Gebreel

This extraordinarily wide-ranging study looks at the dilemmas of life today and shows how they need not have arisen. Portraits of living people and historical figures are placed alongside each other as Zeldin discusses how men and women have lost and regained hope; how they have learnt to have interesting conversations; how some have acquired an immunity to loneliness; how new forms of love and desire have been invented; how respect has become more valued than power; how the art of escaping from one's troubles has developed; why even the privileged are often gloomy; and why parents and children are changing their minds about what they want from each other.

An Intimate History of Humanity

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