A Brief Introduction to Egyptian Coins and Currency by Peter Watson ().Terrible Beauty: A Cultural History of the Twentieth Century: The People and Ideas that Shaped the Modern Mind: A History by Peter Watson ().Watson, Peter ( Author )(Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century) Paperback.War on the Mind: the Military Uses and Abuses of Psychology. Wisdom and Strength, the Biography of a Renaissance Masterpiece. Ideas: a History from Wittgenstein to the World Wide Web. The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century. A Terrible Beauty: the People and Ideas that Shaped the Modern Mind. Landscape of Lies (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries). He has published thirteen books, including The German Genius, published by Simon & Schuster in 2010.

In June 1997, Watson became a research associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge. His journalistic work includes detailed investigations of auction houses and the international market in stolen antiquities, which has resulted in books and television documentaries. He was New York correspondent of The Times and has written for The Observer, Punch, The Spectator and The New York Times.

He was educated at the universities of Durham, London, and Rome. Peter Watson is an intellectual historian and former journalist, now perhaps best known for his work in the history of ideas. Ideas: a History from Wittgenstein to the World Wide Web.Ģ vols, London: The Folio Society. Watson, Peter (2000).Ī Terrible Beauty: the People and Ideas that Shaped the Modern Mind.

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