Ideas: A History from Fire to Freud

Alphabetically by author/editor, they are: Harry Elmer Barnes, An Intellectual and Cultural History of the Western World; Isaiah Berlin, The Sense of Reality; Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane (editors), Modernism: A Guide to European Literature, 1890–1930; Jacob Bronowski and Bruce Mazlish, The Western Intellectual Tradition; Edwin Bryant, The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture; James Buchan, The Capital of the Mind; Peter Burke, Culture and Society in Renaissance Italy; J. W. Burrow, The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848–1914; Norman Cantor, The Civilisation of the Middle Ages; Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of the Enlightenment; Jacques Cauvin, The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture; Owen Chadwick, The Secularisation of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century; Marcia Colish, Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400–1400; Henry Steel Commager, The Empire of Reason; Alfred W. Crosby, The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society; Georges Duby, The Age of the Cathedrals; Mircea Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas; Henri F. Ellenberger, The Discovery of the Unconscious; J. H. Elliott, The Old World and the New; Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin, The Coming of the Book; Valerie Flint, The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus; Robin Lane Fox, The Unauthorised Version; Paula Fredericksen, From Jesus to Christ; Charles Freeman, The Closing of the Western Mind; Jacques Gernet, A History of Chinese Civilisation; Marija Gimbutas, The Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe: 6500 to 3500 BC; Edward Grant, God and Reason in the Middle Ages; Peter Hall, Cities in Civilisation; David Harris (editor), The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia; Alvin M. Josephy (editor), America in 1492; John Keay, India: A History; William Kerrigan and Gordon Braden, The Idea of the Renaissance; Paul Kriwaczek, In Search of Zarathustra; Thomas Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution; Donald F. Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe; David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations; David Levine, At the Dawn of Modernity; David C. Lindberg, The Beginnings of Western Science; A. O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being; Ernst Mayr, The Growth of Biological Thought; Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America; Steven Mithen, The Prehistory of the Mind; Joseph Needham, The Great Titration; Joseph Needham et al., Science and Civilisation in China; Hans J. Nissen, The Early History of the Ancient Near East; Anthony Pagden, The Fall of Natural Man and People and Empires; J. H. Parry, The Age of Reconnaissance; L. D. Reynolds and N. G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars; E. G. Richards, Mapping Time: The Calendar and Its History; Richard Rudgley, The Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age; H. W. F. Saggs, Before Greece and Rome; Harold C. Schonberg, Lives of the Composers; Raymond Schwab, The Oriental Renaissance; Roger Smith, The Fontana History of the Human Sciences; Richard Tarnas, The Passion of the Western Mind; Ian Tattersall, The Fossil Trail; Peter S. Wells, The Barbarians Speak; Keith Whitelam, The Invention of Ancient Israel; G. J. Whitrow, Time in History; Endymion Wilkinson, Chinese History: A Manual.