{"product_id":"books-the-martyrdom-of-man-by-winwood-reade","title":"The Martyrdom of Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Winwood Reade (1838 - 1875) was a British historian, explorer, and philosopher. His major work, \u003cem\u003eThe Martyrdom of Man\u003c\/em\u003e (1872), is a secular history of the Western world. According to one historian, the book became a kind of substitute bible for secularists. In it, Reade attempts to trace the development of Western civilization in terms analogous to those used in the natural sciences. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Martyrdom of Man\u003c\/em\u003e was a history of the world from an entirely new viewpoint, and was a prominent freethinking text of the late Nineteenth century. It is not an exaggeration to say that it provided a view of History as revolutionary as Darwin's view of Science - an entirely new and non-religious way of looking at the subject. It was very popular and influential on publication in the 1870's and long after - Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells and George Orwell were all heavily influenced.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53669070176529,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781773238012.jpg?v=1781505890","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-the-martyrdom-of-man-by-winwood-reade","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}