David SelbourneDAVID SELBOURNE has been a British Commonwealth Fellow at the University of Chicago, Aneurin Bevan Memorial Fellow, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi, and has taught the history of ideas at RuskinCollege, Oxford. He is the author of numerous books, including The Spirit of the Age (1993) and Death of the Dark Hero (1990), and translator of Jacob of Ancona's The City of Light (1997). He was made an Officer of the Italian Order of Merit by President Ciampi in June 2001. Read More Read Less