George Orwell wrote that "history is written by the winners". Even if that seems a bit too cut-and-dried, we can say that history is always written from a viewpoint but that viewpoints change, sometimes radically. The history of workers,...

George Orwell wrote that "history is written by the winners". Even if that seems a bit too cut-and-dried, we can say that history is always written from a viewpoint but that viewpoints change, sometimes radically. The history of workers,...

How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the...

„The Invention of Pornography: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800“ von Lynn Hunt untersucht die Entstehung und Entwicklung von Pornografie in der frühen Neuzeit. Das Buch beleuchtet, wie sich Vorstellungen von Obszönität...