by Pancracio Celdrán · Del Prado Ediciones · tapa dura · ISBN 9788478386819
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«Historia de las cosas» is the historical essay by Pancracio Celdrán, published by Ediciones del Prado in hardcover (308 pages, in Spanish).
The book brings together brief chronicles on the origin of numerous everyday objects, from the bed or the baby bottle to the coffin or cosmetics. Pancracio Celdrán presents these small inventions as the fruit of necessity and improvisation, and explains how they took root in society until becoming part of daily life.
The book belongs to the Palabras Mayores collection. The original edition was published in 1995 in hardcover with an illustrated dust jacket.
A popular science book for curious readers interested in the history of everyday life and the origin of objects of daily use.
Pancracio Celdrán Gomáriz was a Spanish professor, intellectual and journalist whose specialties were the history and literature of antiquity and the medieval period.
