Name: How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History (en Inglés)
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Author: Josephine Quinn
ISBN: 9780593729793

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How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Josephine Quinn

Editorial

Random House

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

592

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Peso

0.57 kg.

ISBN13

9780593729793

Categorías

Historiografía
Historia general y del mundo
Historia social y cultural

How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History (en Inglés)

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An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing its innovations and traditions to societies from all over the world and making the case that the West is, and always has been, truly global. In How the World Made the West, Josephine Quinn poses perhaps the most significant challenge ever to the "civilizational thinking" regarding the origins of Western culture--that 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. 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. 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.

Josephine Quinn

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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.

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