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A Times/Sunday Times, Economist, Guardian, BBC History Magazine and History Today Book of the Year
'One of the most fascinating and important works of global history to appear for many years' William Dalrymple
'Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel. What we have here is a truly encyclopaedic and monumental account of the ancient world' The Times
Ancient Greece and Rome have long been considered the parents of Western civilisation. But the ancient world was a very wide one, of conversation, commerce and theft, sex, war and enslavement. It was this restless global contact that built the West.
Why did Macedonian generals steal elephants from India to rule new realms? How did the lewd graffiti left by foreign workers in Egypt form the basis of the alphabet? In a voyage through space and time, from the Levant of 2000 BC to the dawn of the Age of Exploration, Josephine Quinn rewrites the story of the West - and in doing so, offers us a new history of our shared past.
'Superb, refreshing and full of delights, this is world history at its best' Simon Sebag-Montefiore
'Full of little gem-like shifts of perspective' Guardian
'Scintillates with its focus on the unexpected' Economist
'A work of great confidence, empathy, learning and imagination' Rory Stewart
'This is, in every way, a big book' TLS
'One of the most fascinating and important works of global history to appear for many years' William Dalrymple
'Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel. What we have here is a truly encyclopaedic and monumental account of the ancient world' The Times
Ancient Greece and Rome have long been considered the parents of Western civilisation. But the ancient world was a very wide one, of conversation, commerce and theft, sex, war and enslavement. It was this restless global contact that built the West.
Why did Macedonian generals steal elephants from India to rule new realms? How did the lewd graffiti left by foreign workers in Egypt form the basis of the alphabet? In a voyage through space and time, from the Levant of 2000 BC to the dawn of the Age of Exploration, Josephine Quinn rewrites the story of the West - and in doing so, offers us a new history of our shared past.
'Superb, refreshing and full of delights, this is world history at its best' Simon Sebag-Montefiore
'Full of little gem-like shifts of perspective' Guardian
'Scintillates with its focus on the unexpected' Economist
'A work of great confidence, empathy, learning and imagination' Rory Stewart
'This is, in every way, a big book' TLS
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| Författare: | Josephine Quinn |
| Titel: | How The World Made The West |
| Typ: | Bok |
| Kategori: | Böcker/Historia & Arkeologi/Historia & Arkeologi |
| Releasedatum: | 2025-01-30 |
| Artikelnummer: | 861182 |
| Lagerstatus: | Beställningsvara Leveranstid: från 3 vardagar |
| EAN: | 9781526605221 |
| ISBN: | 1526605221 |
| Språk: | Engelska |
| Bandtyp: | |
| Mått(BxHxD): | 129x198x36 mm |
| Omfång: | 576 sidor |
| Vikt: | 489 gram |
| Titel: | How The World Made The West |
| Förlag: | Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd. |
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