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The West - A New History of an Old Idea (Hardcover)
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The West - A New History of an Old Idea (Hardcover)
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List price R705
Loot Price R580
Discovery Miles 5 800
You Save R125 (18%)
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Many of us assume Western Civilization derives from a cultural
inheritance that stretches back to classical antiquity, a golden
thread that binds us from Plato to NATO. But what if all this is
wrong? What if the Western world does not have its ultimate origins
in a single cultural bloodline but rather a messy bramble of
ancestors and influences? What if The West is just an idea that has
been invented, co-opted, and mythologised to serve different
purposes through history? As battles over privilege, identity and
prejudice rock the cultural wars, it's never been more important to
understand how the concept of The West came to be. This book tells
a bold, empowering new story of how the idea of the West was
created, how it has been used to justify imperialism and racism,
and also why it's still a powerful ideological tool to understand
our world. Told through the lives of fourteen fascinating
historical figures -- from a powerful Roman matriarch to an Islamic
scholar, from a crusading Greek soldier to a founding father of the
United States, from a slave girl in the new Americas to a British
prime minister -- it casts a new light on how the West was
invented, embraced, rejected and re-imagined to shape our world
today.
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