Book summary

Rather than a history of battles and kings, this history focuses on the personal and emotional aspects of human existence. It was voted one of the "Top Ten Books of the Year' by London's "Sunday Times".

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"Theodore Zeldin is the most ambitious of social historians...[He] has engaged in a thought experiment worth pursuing. What he is asking readers to do is make a Pascalian wager on kindness and civility. Human aggressiveness may still give him the lie; but what have we to lose by betting on the future?"

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