Five essays on the tendency of modern historians to update other eras and on the need to recapture the concrete life of the past.

A distillation of the thought and research to which Herbert Butterfield devoted the last twenty years of his life to, this book, originally published in 1981, t

When James Boswell famously lamented the irrationality of war in 1777, he noted the universality of conflict across history and across space - even reaching wha