This is a fascinating, trenchant, witty, absorbing and long book. It seeks, in essence, to explore 20th century history by looking at the intersection of politics and secular events with religious and quasi-religious ideas and movements.
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Tuesday 19 April 2011
Tuesday 12 April 2011
Unholy War, David Kertzer
(Also published under the title The Popes Against the Jews in the United States)
This is a book by the distinguished Jewish American scholar David Kertzer exploring the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Jewish people during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
This is a book by the distinguished Jewish American scholar David Kertzer exploring the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Jewish people during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Friday 8 April 2011
The Origins of the British, Stephen Oppenheimer
This is a lengthy and interesting book about the ethnic origins of the British and the Irish. It debunks at length some common misconceptions about where we came from by deploying a mixture of genetic, linguistic, literary and archaeological evidence.
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