How the World Made the West by Josephine Quinn: A sprawling new history. ... How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History . Author: Josephine Quinn . ISBN-13: 978-1526605184.

Josephine Quinn, a professor of ancient history at Oxford, adds her voice to that dialogue with “How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History.” ...

It’s sort of the opposite of what I’m doing in How the World Made the West, where I’m talking about how we should really ...

Josephine Quinn, a professor of ancient history at Oxford, adds her voice to that dialogue with “How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History.” ...

How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History, by Josephine Quinn, Bloomsbury £30/Random House $38, 576/592 pages Tristram Hunt is the director of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum ...

Josephine Quinn: "A narrative focused solely on Greece and Rome impoverishes our view of the past, and impoverishes our understanding of our own world." Photos / Supplied Photos / Supplied History ...

On the face of it, How the World Made the West is a surprising title for a book that says less about how the concept of the West—which Quinn never really defines—came to be than about how ...

Quinn’s point is that Octavian was unelected and held the position of ruler on unofficial grounds. But it is one of the strengths of How the World Made the West that it forces us to think ...

How the World Made the West. By Josephine Quinn. Random House; 592 pages; $38. Bloomsbury; £30. A sked what he thought of Western civilisation, Mahatma Gandhi is said to have quipped that such a ...

Interview: Josephine Quinn author, How the World Made the West. By Simar Bhasin . Sep 02, 2024 09:25 PM IST . Share Via. Copy Link.