{"product_id":"2940169305234","title":"Martyrdom of Man","description":"William Winwood Reade (1838 - 1875) was a British historian, explorer, and philosopher.His most famous work, the Martyrdom of Man (1872)¿whose summary running head reads \"From Nebula to Nation\"¿is a secular, \"universal\" history of the Western world. Structurally, it is divided into four \"chapters\" of approximately 150 pages each: the first chapter, \"War\", discusses the imprisonment of men's bodies, the second, \"Religion\", that of their minds, the third, \"Liberty\", is the closest thing to a conventional European political and intellectual history, and the fourth, \"Intellect\", which discusses the cosmogony characteristic of a \"universal history\"Cecil Rhodes, an English-born South African politician and businessman, said that the book \"made me what I am\".  Other admirers of The Martyrdom of Man included H. G. Wells, Winston Churchill,  Harry Johnston, George Orwell, Susan Isaacs, A. A. Milne and his son Christopher Robin,  and Michael Foot.  A laudatory reference is made to the book by Sherlock Holmes  in the Sign of the Four. - Summary by Wikipedia","brand":"DISCOS PALMAS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114282926320,"sku":"2940169305234","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169305234_p0.jpg?v=1772801051","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169305234","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}