Ideas that Shaped our World

It would need someone with a truly synoptic mind adequately to review this survey. Sub‐titled “Understanding the great concepts of then and now”, it attempts to describe the revolutionary ideas that have helped to formulate the kind of life that mankind enjoys today. Consulting editor Robert Stewart, an historian who has been a research lecturer at the University of London and an Honorary Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, has gathered together an impressive team of contributors and assistant editors to help him in producing this tome. He sets the scene with an introduction in which he reminds us that...