The Intimate History of Humanity

The history of relationships between people is the history of humanity. The most intimate feelings have a history, and it is as important as the history of culture, believes the English historian and philosopher Theodore Zeldin. In the intimate life of every person, the whole world is reflected, and vice versa. How have people and their relationships with each other changed over the centuries? Love, sexual attraction, hatred, compassion, loneliness - this book tells how these and other feelings have created our reality.