How the World Made the West

Resumen del libro

The West, the story goes, 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? In a bold and magisterial work of immense scope, Josephine Quinn argues that the real 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 separate 'civilisations'. Moving from the Bronze Age to the Age of Exploration, How the World Made the West makes the case that understanding societies in isolation is both out-of-date and wrong. It is contact and connections, rather than solitary civilisations, that drive historical change. It is not peoples that make history - people do.

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.