History of Ideas

''Endlessly insightful and full of surprises - exactly what you would expect from Tim Harford'' BILL BRYSON''Entertaining . . . A lively introducti...

Why have so many figures throughout American history proclaimed their life stories when confronted by great political problems? The Claims of Exper...

A guide to the thinkers and the ideas that will shape the futureWhat happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who...

'Big Science' is a broad epithet that can be associated with research projects as different as the Manhattan Project, the Hubble Telescope-construc...

The Big Ideas Notebook is a beautifully produced, hard-wearing notebook from the publishers of the Introducing Graphic Guide series - essential ill...

Cultural history tends to elude positive definition. It deals in some sense with culture, and with history, combined in a creative and often critic...

This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy -- the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousan...

A critical revaluation of the humanist tradition, Borrowed Light makes the case that the 20th century is the anticolonial century. The sparks of co...

Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist n...

Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist n...

Information has a rich but under explored history. The information age of the late twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new history of in...

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philo...

The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shape...

Peter Adamson and Jonardon Ganeri present a lively introduction to one of the world's richest intellectual traditions: the philosophy of classical ...