Lecciones de la Historia

In 1968, Will Durant and Ariel Durant, after completing their monumental History of Civilization, a critically and publicly acclaimed collection, decided to provide readers with a compendium of their work. An overview of trends and lessons drawn across five thousand years of world history and examined from twelve perspectives: geography, biology, race, character, morals, religion, economics, socialism, government, war, growth and decline, and progress. In Will's words, "we take note of events and commentary which could illuminate current affairs, future probabilities, the nature of man, and the conduct of States". The result is this "masterpiece of distillation", as described by the literary critic John Barkham, and which we are publishing for the first time in Spain.