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Left-handers have been described as "a people without a history". Although one in ten people today is left-handed, even historical studies of the rate of left-handedness before the twentieth century are rare. This special issue presents detailed reports on a range of topics from teaching children to use their right hands, the side on which babies should be held, left-handed swordsmen, the eighteenth-century left-handed musical prodigy William Crotch, the twentieth century left-handed guitarist Jimi Hendrix, an early nineteenth century lithograph that is probably obscene, and one of Jacob…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Left-handers have been described as "a people without a history". Although one in ten people today is left-handed, even historical studies of the rate of left-handedness before the twentieth century are rare. This special issue presents detailed reports on a range of topics from teaching children to use their right hands, the side on which babies should be held, left-handed swordsmen, the eighteenth-century left-handed musical prodigy William Crotch, the twentieth century left-handed guitarist Jimi Hendrix, an early nineteenth century lithograph that is probably obscene, and one of Jacob Bronowski's earliest BBC TV science programmes, Right Hand Left Hand, shown in 1953.
Autorenporträt
Chris McManus, Michael Nicholls, Giorgio Vallortigara