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\n An award-winning Oxford history professor\u00a0\u201cmakes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve\u201d (The Wall Street Journal)\u2014that the West is, and always has been, truly global.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose archaic \u2018Western Civ\u2019 classes so many of us took in college should be updated, argues Quinn, [who] invites us to . . . revel in a richer, more polyglot\u00a0inheritance.\u201d\u2014The Boston Globe<\/p>\n

A FINANCIAL TIMES AND ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u00a0(SO FAR)<\/p>\n

In How the World Made the West, Josephine Quinn poses perhaps the most significant challenge ever to the \u201ccivilizational thinking\u201d regarding the origins of Western culture\u2014that is, the idea that civilizations arose separately and distinctly from one another. Rather, she locates the roots of the modern West in everything from the law codes of Babylon, Assyrian irrigation, and the Phoenician art of sail to Indian literature, Arabic scholarship, and the metalworking riders of the Steppe, to name just a few examples.<\/p>\n

According to Quinn, reducing the backstory of the modern West to a narrative that focuses on Greece and Rome impoverishes our view of the past. This understanding of history would have made no sense to the ancient Greeks and Romans themselves, who understood and discussed their own connections to and borrowings from others. They consistently presented their own culture as the result of contact and exchange. Quinn builds on the writings they left behind with rich analyses of other ancient literary sources like the epic of Gilgamesh, holy texts, and newly discovered records revealing details of everyday life. A work of breathtaking scholarship, How the World Made the West also draws on the material culture of the times in art and artifacts as well as findings from the latest scientific advances in carbon dating and human genetics to thoroughly debunk the myth of the modern West as a self-made miracle.<\/p>\n

In lively prose and with bracing clarity, as well as through vivid maps and color illustrations, How the World Made the West challenges the stories the West continues to tell about itself. It redefines our understanding of the Western self and civilization in the cosmopolitan world of today.

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Publisher \u200f : \u200e Random House (September 3, 2024)
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Hardcover \u200f : \u200e 592 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 059372979X
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-0593729793
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 2.31 pounds
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 6.47 x 1.7 x 9.53 inches <\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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