Portraits from History: A Selection from Engelsberg Ideas
Armand D'Angour • Peter Frankopan • Jessica Frazier • Lawrence Freedman • Matthew Goodwin
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TheEngelsberg Ideas Portraits series gives pride of place to the secondaryfigures who make the wheels of history whir and thrum. They include Churchill s half-forgotten right-hand man, a leading light of the Parisian BelleEpoque lost to history, and an early space pioneer virtually unknown outsideof his native Russia. History belongs not only to the popularly renownedbut also to the other figures, the men and women who found their energiessuddenly borne along by events or who made a unique contribution to thegreat debates of their time.
Throughout the series, leading writers show us how individuals shapedthe world as we know it, examining their successes as much as their failuresand delusions. The Anglo-German novelist W.G. Sebald wrote at the turn ofour century that everything is constantly lapsing into oblivion with everyextinguished life. In these portraits we find the dim traces left by interestinglives lived and conscientiously restore them, so that they gleam once more, bright and alive in the present.
- Format: Häftad
- ISBN: 9789189425699
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 160
- Utgivningsdatum: 2022-11-16
- Förlag: Bokforlaget Stolpe