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The Enlightenment - review
Posted on: 5 November 2021
Citizens of the world The author, Ritchie Robertson, is a professor of German language and literature at the University of Oxford. His treatment of the Enlightenment is broad, both in terms of subject...
β β β β β (2020)
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The Fall of Robespierre - review
Posted on: 29 October 2021
GREAT CONSPIRACY. Today would have been one of the greatest events that France has ever known if conspiracy had had its way. Celestin Guittard de Floriban What had so shocked Parisian diarist...
β β β β β (2021)
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From Rebel to Ruler - review
Posted on: 22 October 2021
My in-laws like to tell a story about when the communists came to town. Their home was in a small village just outside the county town, about 5 hours west of Beijing. In the 1930s and 1940s the town...
β β β ββ (2021)
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister - review
Posted on: 15 October 2021
This is a book about the three most famous sisters in Chinese history: the Soong sisters. They were international celebrities: highly educated, politically pivotal and ridiculously rich. They embodied...
β β β ββ (2019)
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Personality in popular history
Posted on: 8 October 2021
Can there be too much personality in popular history? This post is a rumination on the pitfalls and promises of focussing a history book too much on personality⦠or not at all. Along the way I will...
opinion
Dress Codes - review
Posted on: 1 October 2021
Is fashion frivolous? Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History acknowledges that it can judged to be, but also shows that it is and has been a serious matter. Whether we want them to or not,...
β β β β β (2021)
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Past Mistakes - review
Posted on: 24 September 2021
Close your eyes and conjure up an image of Christopher Columbus⦠Did you do it? What did you see? If you are anything like me you will envisage a cheerful little fellow wearing a captains hat,...
β β β β β (2020)
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Trauma or nostalgia? What does history mean in the USA πΊπΈ and the UK π¬π§?
Posted on: 19 September 2021
I have lived all my life in the UK and have a certain idea about what history is. But history can mean different things to different people. How is my UK perspective on the subject different from a...
opinion
Augustine - review
Posted on: 10 September 2021
Introduction The tagline for this book could be βa biography of an autobiographyβ β it conveys a sense of what Robin Lane Fox manages to achieve in his award winning book, an analysis of how one of...
β β β β β (2015)
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About Time - review
Posted on: 10 September 2021
Clocks are about more than just telling the time. At one level this is a statement of the obvious: we all know that the watch you wear is not chosen purely for its practicality as a time-keeping...
β β β β β (2021)
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Thebes - review
Posted on: 2 September 2021
In 371 BCE the Thebans achieved one of the most shocking victories in the history of warfare, by trouncing the previously invincible Spartans at the battle of Luectra despite being outnumbered almost...
β β β β β (2020)
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In Defence of History - review
Posted on: 25 August 2021
I have never knowingly met a post-modernist. Perhaps I have been going to the wrong parties β back in the days when I went to parties. I am keen to meet one. If you are one or can introduce one get in...
β β β β β (1997)
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