EAN: 9780753558935

THE WEST - NAOÍSE MAC SWEENEY KARTONIERT (TB)

*A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week*'A fantastic achievement' Peter Frankopan  author of The Silk
Roads'Bright  expansive  and iconoclastic  this deliciously witty book has the potential to
upset the applecart of Western Civilisation itself... Magnificent' Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb
_________________A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history  told
through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives. We tend to imagine Western Civilisation as a
golden thread stretching from classical antiquity to the countries of the modern Western world.
But what if this is wrong? Told through the lives of fourteen fascinating historical figures -
including a formidable Roman matriarch  an unconventional Islamic scholar  an enslaved African
American poetess and a British prime minister with Homeric aspirations - archaeologist and
historian Naoíse Mac Sweeney charts how the idea of the West was invented  how it has been used
to justify imperialism and racism  and why it is no longer ideologically fit for purpose today.
The result is a bold and empowering new story of the people and ideas who made us who we are
today.

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