Anthony Coleman (1)

This book was specially written to accompany the ten-part television series Millennium, itself based on Felipe Fernández-Armesto's book of the same title.

It offers a bold, colourful approach to the last thousand years of world history. Taking a global rather than a European or Anglo-Saxon perspective, it looks at neglected but interesting corners of mankind's collective experience. It considers vast historical movements, but in vivid detail, on a human scale, through the lives of remarkable individuals, some famous, some unfamiliar except to academics. It evokes the past through images and through the actual words of witnesses.… (meer)