The West av Naoise Mac Sweeney

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<p><b>*A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week*<br>''A fantastic achievement'' Peter Frankopan, author of <i>The Silk Roads</i><br>''Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this deliciously witty book has the potential to upset the applecart of "Western Civilisation" itself... Magnificent'' Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb</b><br><b>_________________<br><br>A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives.</b><br><br>We tend to imagine Western Civilisation as a golden thread stretching from classical antiquity to the countries of the modern Western world. But what if this is wrong?<br><br>Told through the lives of fourteen fascinating historical figures - including a formidable Roman matriarch, an unconventional Islamic scholar, an enslaved African American poetess and a British prime minister with Homeric aspirations ¿ archaeologist and historian Nao¿ Mac Sweeney charts how the idea of the West was invented, how it has been us