Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century by John Higgs

Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century

John Higgs

11 hours, 13 minutes first pub 2015 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history philosophy science challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that before 1900, history seemed to make sense. We can understand innovations like electricity, agriculture and democracy. The twentieth century, in contrast, gave us relativity, cubism, quantum m...

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