NEIL MACGREGOR
A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS (2011)
OUTLINE
A stone pillar tells us about a great Indian emperor preaching tolerance to his people; Spanish pieces of eight tell us about the beginning of a global currency; and an early Victorian tea-set speaks to us about the impact of empire.
REVIEWS
'Brilliant, engagingly written, deeply researched' Mary Beard, Guardian
‘A triumph: hugely popular, and rightly lauded as one of the most effective and intellectually ambitious initiatives in the making of 'public history' for many decades' Sunday Telegraph
'Highly intelligent, delightfully written and utterly absorbing ' Timothy Clifford, Spectator
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