For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people understand themselves?Neil MacGregor argues that, uniquely for any European country, no coherent, overarching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany both geography and history have always been unstable. Its frontiers have constantly shifted. Köni...

Un recorrido inédito por la historia del mundo guiado por un cicerone de excepción.Un festín para el intelecto y para la vista, uno de los libros de historia más originales y fascinantes jamás publicados.Este libro ofrece un enfoque único de la historia de la humanidad a través del estudio de objetos que las distintas civilizaciones, a menudo sin pretenderlo, han ido dejando a su paso. Estas obras se convierten en una suerte de prismas a tr...

**"An enthralling and profoundly humane book that every civilized person should read."--The Wall Street JournalThe blockbuster New York Times bestseller and the companion volume to the wildly popular radio series**When did people first start to wear jewelry or play music? When were cows domesticated, and why do we feed their milk to our children? Where were the first cities, and what made them succeed? Who developed math--or invented money?T...

In 2010, the BBC and the British Museum embarked on an ambitious project: to tell the story of two million years of human history using one hundred objects selected from the Museum's vast and renowned collection.Presented by the British Museum's then Director Neil MacGregor, each episode focuses on a single object - from a Stone Age tool to a solar-powered lamp - and explains its significance in human history. A stone pillar tells us about a great Indian emperor preaching tolerance...

In this major new BBC radio series, Neil MacGregor investigates the role and expression of shared beliefs through time and around the world.One of the central facts of human existence is that every society shares a set of beliefs and assumptions - a faith, an ideology, a religion - that goes far beyond the life of the individual. These beliefs are an essential part of a shared identity. They have a unique power to define - and to divide - us, and are a driving force in the politics...

Un berretto di panno e una spada, un calice e una medaglia; il modellino di una nave e una forchetta dai rebbi appuntitissimi; l’occhio di un martire cattolico incastonato in un reliquiario d’argento e lo schizzo di una bandiera: ecco i protagonisti di una grande storia mai raccontata, dove si agitano immani conflitti e privati sommovimenti. Come in un sogno barocco, tutto succede a teatro. Non sul palcoscenico però, ma negli ultimi posti della platea. Siamo in Inghilterra, nel secondo Ci...

In the same format as his best-selling books A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany: Memories of a Nation—the acclaimed art historian now gives us a magnificent new book that explores the relationship between faith and society.Until fairly recently, religion as a major influence on the nature of individual societies around the world seemed to be on the wane. Now, far from being marginalized, the relationship between faith and society ha...

Ein 40.000 Jahre alter Löwenmann aus Elfenbein, eine goldene Gibla aus dem 16. Jahrhundert, ein Kreuz aus Lampedusa – mit unnachahmlicher Meisterschaft bringt Neil MacGregor all diese faszinierenden Objekte zum Sprechen. Sein neues Buch nimmt uns mit auf eine unvergessliche Reise durch die Welt der Götter und Religionen. Von der frühen Verehrung von Feuer, Wasser und Sonne über Feste am Ganges und Pilgerfahrten im Orient bis zu den blutigen Kämpfen, die bis auf den heutigen Tag in ihrem Na...

From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of Germany like no otherFor the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental Europe. Thirty years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people now understand themselves?Neil MacGregor argues that uniquely for any European country, no coherent, over-arching narrative of Germ...

Während Shakespeare unvergängliche Werke wie Romeo und Julia, Hamlet, Othello oder König Lear schrieb, ging die Welt durch ein Zeitalter tiefgreifender Veränderungen. Seit der Entdeckung Amerikas hatten sich die Horizonte Europas dramatisch erweitert. Ein ganzes Weltbild geriet ins Wanken. Neil MacGregor führt uns anhand von zwanzig Objekten mitten hinein in diese Zeit - und hinein in die Stücke Shakespeares.Ob er uns das Schwert eines Ed...

Was uns eine steinerne Säule über einen großen indischen Herrscher erzählen kann, der seinem Volk Toleranz predigt, was spanische Dukaten uns über die Anfänge der globalen Währung verraten, oder was ein viktorianisches Teeservice uns über die Macht des Britischen Empires offenbart - Neil MacGregor beschreibt all diese Objekte nicht einfach nur, sondern erschließt uns durch ihre Betrachtung immer auch ein Stück Weltgeschichte. Wer den hier versammelten Dingen - vom afrikanischen Faustkeil b...

World-renowned art historian Neil MacGregor takes us across Britain to discover local museums and their hidden gemsNeil MacGregor, former director of the National Gallery and the British Museum, knows the importance of public museums. In The Museums That Make Us, he takes us around the country to visit twenty local museums and to talk to their curators, staff and local figures about the most prized objects in their collections. Often a chi...