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Roy Porter

Roy Porter

·3.75·3,674 Ratings
“ Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ” ― Rumi
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  • Madness: A Brief History

    2003·
    ·3.48·533 Ratings
    Roy Porter's historical overview of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the beginning of the 21st century. Roy Porter's historical overview of madness reveals the radically diff
  • A Social History of Madness

    1989·
    ·3.92·63 Ratings
  • Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul

    2005·
    ·3.95·149 Ratings
    In this "readable and humane book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), the late historian Roy Porter traces the course of man's philosophical journey from the superstitious, spiritually obsessed Dark Ages to our modern perspective, based on reason and ground
  • London: A Social History

    1998·
    ·3.78·198 Ratings
    This is a one-volume history of the city of London from Roman times to the late-20th century. London grew from a backwater in the Classical age into an important medieval city, a significant Renaissance urban centre and a modern colossus.
  • Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine

    2004·
    ·3.68·590 Ratings
    An eminently readable, entertaining romp through the history of our vain and valiant efforts to heal ourselves. Mankind's battle to stay alive and healthy for as long as possible is our oldest, most universal struggle. With his characteristic wit and vast
  • English Society in the 18th Century

    1990·
    ·3.73·286 Ratings
    A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages. In this boldly drawn po
  • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (Norton History of Science)

    1999·
    ·4·531 Ratings
    "To combine enormous knowledge with a delightful style and a highly idiosyncratic point of view is Roy Porter's special gift, and it makes [this] book . . . alive and fascinating and provocative on every page."—Oliver Sacks, M.D.Porter's charting of the
  • Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

    2001·
    ·3.82·115 Ratings
    For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for consideringBritain
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