How the World Made the West

Resumen del libro

A work of great confidence, empathy, learning and imagination' RORY STEWART 'Eye-popping, mind-blowing, ground-breaking' LUCY WORSLEY 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. But what if that isn't true? What if the story is very different? In this bold and magisterial work of immense scope, Josephine 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.

Biografía del autor

Josephine Quinn es profesora de Historia Antigua en la Universidad de Oxford, y Martin Frederiksen profesor asociado y tutor en Historia Antigua en el Worcester College de Oxford. Es graduada por Oxford y por la Universidad de Berkeley, ha impartido clase en Estados Unidos, Italia y Reino Unido, y ha codirigido excavaciones arqueológicas de equipos formados por británicos y tunecinos en Útica. Es colaboradora habitual de la London Review of Books, así como de programas de radio y televisión. Es autora del premiado libro In Search of the Phoenicians.