How the World Made the West: 'World history at its best' Simon Sebag Montefiore
Autor Josephine Quinnen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 ian 2025
În volumul How the World Made the West, Josephine Quinn propune o schimbare radicală de paradigmă față de viziunea tradițională a civilizațiilor izolate. Ediția de față, publicată de Bloomsbury Publishing, deconstruiește mitul conform căruia valorile occidentale s-au născut exclusiv în Grecia și Roma Antică, fiind ulterior redescoperite în Renaștere. Quinn demonstrează că motorul istoriei nu au fost popoarele luate individual, ci rețelele de contacte, de la inventarea alfabetului de către muncitorii levantini în Egipt până la adoptarea cifrelor indiene prin intermediul lumii arabe. Considerăm că această lucrare este esențială pentru înțelegerea modului în care migrația și comerțul au modelat identitatea europeană mult înainte de era modernă. Din punct de vedere al ariei de studiu, How the World Made the West acoperă același teritoriu vast ca A Global History of the Ancient World de Eivind Heldaas Seland, dar cu o abordare mult mai axată pe mecanismele de schimb și pe critica conceptului victorian de 'civilizație' unitară. Stilul este unul erudit, dar accesibil, reflectând experiența autoarei ca profesor la Cambridge și colaborator constant al London Review of Books. Această perspectivă asupra interconectivității continuă preocupările autoarei din lucrarea sa anterioară, In Search of the Phoenicians, unde a explorat identitatea fenicienilor prin prisma schimburilor mediteraneene. Recomandăm acest titlu pentru rigoarea cu care tratează mii de ani de istorie globală, oferind o narațiune fluidă despre întâlniri și transformări culturale care sfidează granițele geografice rigide.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1526605228
Pagini: 576
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor pasionat de istorie care dorește să depășească clișeele despre 'miracolul grecesc'. Josephine Quinn oferă o perspectivă proaspătă asupra modului în care interacțiunile umane, nu izolarea, au construit lumea modernă. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a rădăcinilor multiculturale ale Occidentului, totul într-un stil narativ captivant, validat de cele mai importante publicații internaționale.
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'Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel. What we have here is a truly encyclopaedic and monumental account of the ancient world' The Times
Ancient Greece and Rome are considered the parents of Western civilisation. But the ancient world was much more interconnected than we realise - a place of constant exchange, commerce and theft, sex, war and enslavement.
Journeying from the Levant of 2500 BC to the dawn of the Age of Exploration, Josephine Quinn argues that the roots of the West can be found in everything from Indian mathematics to the chariots of the Steppe, from Arabic poetry to the Phoenician art of sailing. The result is an epic and revelatory history of our shared past.
'Superb, refreshing and full of delights, this is world history at its best' Simon Sebag-Montefiore
'Full of little gem-like shifts of perspective' Guardian
'Scintillates with its focus on the unexpected' Economist
'A work of great confidence, empathy, learning and imagination' Rory Stewart
'This is, in every way, a big book' Times Literary Supplement
LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2025
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times, Observer, Economist, Guardian, BBC History Magazine, i-paper and History Today
Recenzii
Astounding . . . Both erudite and witty, sweeping and granular, this book is revisionist history at its best
Quinn keeps the revelations coming at a fair lick . . . In 400 crisp pages, 30 societies are paraded before us with comparative reflection and world-weary wit. Better still, Quinn's book is polemical
One of the most fascinating and important works of global history to appear for many years
Bold, beautifully written and filled with insights, How the World Made the West demands that we challenge traditional views of the past. An extraordinary achievement
How the World Made the West has plenty of myths about the ancient world to dispel . . . The vicissitudes in each centre's fortunes make for a dynamic narrative, as cities that were once great are swept away, and new ones spring up in their wake
An eye-popping, mind-blowing, ground-breaking juggernaut of an argument, from a writer ready to roar
Erudite, inventive, playful - a work of great confidence, empathy, learning and imagination
No one but Josephine Quinn could have written a book like this - a book of enormous erudition and curiosity; a book that teaches you something new on almost every page. With a sense of growing political urgency, How the World Made the West reveals the folly of civilisational thinking. In its place, Quinn traces the many entangled paths of art, commerce, religion, and language, forging a deeper and truer understanding of our common world
A masterpiece that gives us a new lens to understand 4,000 years of history
This book - full of memorable stories - is nothing less than a reorientation of the history of "the West." Josephine Quinn persuasively shows that the mingling of cultures through trade and migration is as old as civilisation itself, breaking down the hackneyed idea of the uniqueness of the Greco-Roman world . . . This is a book to unite us in divided times
Josephine Quinn is one of the few scholars writing today who could possibly present such a masterful sweeping overview as an accessible and compelling story . . . A marvelous, majestic book. This will be an instant classic
Jo Quinn gives us a fascinating insight into the entanglements that have driven change in our collective past: the journeys, meetings, relationships and exchanges that, more than anything else, have helped shape our world today. It is a brilliant reminder that our human story is - and always will be - empty if we don't acknowledge the ways in which we have constantly interacted with, and depended on, one another