Roger Osborne (1)
Author of Civilization: A New History of the Western World
For other authors named Roger Osborne, see the disambiguation page.
Works by Roger Osborne
Historical Atlas of the Earth: A Visual Exploration of the Earth's Physical Past (Henry Holt Reference Book) (1995) — General editor — 24 copies
The dreamer of the Calle de San Salvador : visions of sedition and sacrilege in sixteenth-century Spain (2001) 11 copies
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- Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
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- University of Manchester
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Dare I say it, something of a Curate's Egg. Being a kind of patchwork of different styles and genres, parts of it are indeed excellent.( eg, capt Cook & !dr Buckland are intriguing episodes, even thrilling, with a deep sense of science history & philosophy; but other parts are dull in the way of local history monographs. He clearly has a great love and knowledge of his territory around Whitby, but his striving to make it the centre of the geological universe go too far.
Civilization tells the story of western world from its origins to the present.
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We all feel that we know what democracy is but, therein lies the danger. Britain is regularly described as the mother of democracy and yet, it wasn't the first country to profess itself a democracy and, indeed, there is a strong argument that Great Britain runs an Oligarchy. Privately schooled white men have a massive over representation, the party which spends the most money on their election campaign almost always wins and the fact that big business has the ear of the leaders is no longer disputed, even by those in leadership.
Democracy is a great idea but, perhaps it is an unattainable vision. Certainly, the history, as presented, seems to imply that, from the moment a proto democracy comes into being, the rot sets in and it begins to collapse.
How depressing...… (more)