Fitzroy Dearborn Chronology of Ideas

<p>The Code of Hammurabi. Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses. The radical notions that launched the French Revolution. The beliefs that propelled the American Civil Rights movement. These are only a few of the thousands of concepts described in this remarkable chronicle of intellectual history. Presenting the ideas of philosophers prophets scholars critics educators revolutionaries and reformers the <em>Fitzroy Dearborn Chronology of Ideas</em> concentrates on the famous - as well as infamous - concepts that have changed the world. Here too are the historical turning points that resulted from the application of those ideas - the natural flow of the American Revolution from the concept of democratic liberalism for example or the Russian Revolution from Marxism.</p>