EAN: 9781526605191

HOW THE WORLD MADE THE WEST - JOSEPHINE QUINN K...

What does history look like without 'civilisations'? Josephine Quinn calls for a major
reassessment of the West and the concepts that define it. The West  history tells us  was built
on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome  which disappeared from Europe during the
Dark Ages and were then rediscovered by the Renaissance. In a bold and magisterial work of
immense scope  Josephine Quinn argues that the true story of the West is much bigger than this
established paradigm leads us to believe. So much of our shared history has been lost  drowned
out by the concept - developed in the Victorian era - of 'civilisations'. Quinn reveals a new
narrative: one that traces the relationships that built what is now called the West from the
Bronze Age to the Age of Exploration  as societies met  tangled and sometimes grew apart. She
makes the case that it is contact and connections  rather than distinct and isolated
civilisations  that drive historical change. It is not peoples that make history - people do.

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