City of the End of Things

The surprising reflections on the human world, past and present, that are found here are drawn from a high-profile lectures series at McMaster University from 1956 to the present. Robert Oppenheimer helped to invent the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima; Northrop Frye changed Canada's vision of itself in the international world; and Edward Togo Salmon understood the rise and fall of empire like nobody else. Take a whirlwind tour of the Roman Empire, find out about physics...
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The surprising reflections on the human world, past and present, that are found here are drawn from a high-profile lectures series at McMaster University from 1956 to the present. Robert Oppenheimer helped to invent the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima; Northrop Frye changed Canada's vision of itself in the international world; and Edward Togo Salmon understood the rise and fall of empire like nobody else. Take a whirlwind tour of the Roman Empire, find out about physics from Isaac Newton to the splitting of the atom, and consider Canada's position as it stood poised to enter a new modern century. An engaging introduction by Professor Jonathan Hart gives all that background you need to enjoy these explorations of science, culture, and empire in a rapidly changing world as it looked some fifty years ago to three brilliant thinkers.