Brief History of History: Great Historians and the Epic Quest to Explain the Past

by Colin Wells and Colin Wells

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159921122X
• ISBN13: 9781599211220
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.3"