### Amazon.com Review Politics, economics, greed, sex, carsβwithout them, matrimony wouldnβt have caused the historical revolution ensuing today, concludes social historian Stephanie Coontz, in _Marriage, a History_. Modern marriage is in crisis; but donβt pine for a return to "the good old days,"
Love Conquers Nothing: A Glandular History of Civilization
β Scribed by Hahn, Emily
- Book ID
- 109034218
- Publisher
- Open Road Distribution
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 192 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781504011105
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
If you look at history through Emily Hahn's jaundiced eyes, you'll realize that romance just ain't what romantics crack it up to be. Using such notorious affairs as those of Caesar and Cleopatra or Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Hahn reminds us that love is far less of a factor in the fates of nations than greed, wrath, and some of humanity's other, less attractive character traits. Love doesn't conquer all; it just screws a lot of things up.
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