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However, I have been no less fortunate in that a number of eminent scholars, who liked the plan for a history of ideas aimed at a general readership, agreed to read either parts or all of the typescript, and to give me the benefit of their expertise.

As it is, I will merely say that the list which follows contains books that are, quite simply, indispensable for anyone who wishes to consider himself or herself informed about the history of ideas and that my gratitude to the following authors knows no bounds.

A history of ideas clearly touches on a vast amount of material and ways must be found to make this array manageable.

Crane Brinton, professor of ancient and modern history at Harvard, identified humanism, Protestantism and rationalism as the three great ideas making the modern world.

These arguments and ideas certainly help us begin to find our way about a massive field but, as will become clear later in this Introduction, and then throughout the book, though I think that all these ideas and innovations are important, my own candidates are very different.

I do not have any magic formula according to which ideas have been chosen for inclusion in this book.

I include abstract ideas and I include inventions which I think are or were important.

He was one of the founders of the History of Ideas Club at Johns Hopkins and gave a series of lectures, the William James Lectures on Philosophy and Psychology, at Harvard University, in spring 1933.

In an essay elsewhere, he identified the subject matter of a history of ideas as: the history of philosophy, of science, of religion and theology, of the arts, of education, of sociology, of language, of folklore and ethnography, of economics and politics, of literature, of societies.

Introduction, by discussing the theories and arguments of others, I have tried to give a flavour of what a history of ideas is and can be.

My aim throughout has been to identify and discuss those ideas and inventions that have had a long-term influence on the way we live or have lived and think.

Chapter 1, ancient stone tools have been found all over the world, and their distribution and variation enable us to recreate a great deal about our distant past and the first ideas and thoughts of ancient humankind.

Old World and the New provides a neat natural experiment, to compare how and in what order different ideas developed.

If tools and the control of fire were the first ideas, clothing and shelter soon followed.

The mix of abstract and practical down-to-earth ideas would not have been recognised by early humans.