A Short History of Power: Simon Heffer - Hardcover

Heffer, Simon

 
9781907903205: A Short History of Power: Simon Heffer
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1907903208 ISBN 13: 9781907903205
Verlag: Notting Hill Editions, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

From Macaulay in the 19th century to Fukuyama in the late 20th, historians have often been lulled into thinking that things can only get better. Such belief in progress, argues leading political commentator Simon Heffer, may be typical of times of plenty, but it ignores a less palatable truth: that, since the beginnings of recorded history, the major events in international relations can be attributed to a single cause, the desire by rulers to assert or protect their power. 

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Simon Heffer is an English historian, journalist, author and political commentator. He has published several biographies and a series of books on the social history of Great Britain from the mid-nineteenth century until the end of the First World War. He was appointed professorial research fellow at the University of Buckingham in 2017.

He worked as a columnist for the Daily Mail and since 2015 has had a weekly column in the Sunday Telegraph.

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From Macaulay in the 19th century to Fukuyama in the late 20th, historians have often been lulled into thinking that things can only get better. Such belief in progress, argues leading political commentator Simon Heffer, may be typical of times of plenty, but it ignores a less palatable truth: that, since the beginnings of recorded history, the major events in international relations can be attributed to a single cause, the desire by rulers to assert or protect their power. Taking a panoramic view from the days of Thucydides up to the present, Heffer offers a fourfold analysis of the motive forces behind the pursuit of power: land, wealth, God and minds. If we understand these forces, he contends, we can more clearly understand why history is destined to repeat itself.

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Verlag
Notting Hill Editions
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1907903208
ISBN 13 
9781907903205
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
160
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