Worlds at war : the 2,500-year struggle between East and West

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Title:

Author:

Pagden, Anthony.

ISBN:

9780199237432

Personal Author:

Pagden, Anthony.

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 548 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Contents:

1. Perpetual Enmity -- 2. In the Shadow of Alexander -- 3. A World of Citizens -- 4. The Church Triumphant -- 5. The Coming of Islam -- 6. Houses of War -- 7. The Present Terror of the World -- 8. Science Ascendant -- 9. Enlightened Orientalism -- 10. The Muhammad of the West -- 11. The Eastward Course of Empire -- 12. Epilogue: Towards the Future.

Abstract:

"The wars between East and West have not only been the longest and most costly in human history, they have also formed the West's vision of itself as independent, free, secular, and now democratic. They have shaped, and continue to shape, the nature of the modern world."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

East and West.

Culture conflict -- History.

Christianity and other religions -- Islam -- History.

Imperialism -- History.

Geographic Term:

Europe -- Relations -- Islamic countries.

Islamic countries -- Relations -- Europe.

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Summary

A history of the conflict between East and West, from the struggles between the Greeks and the Persians in classical antiquity, through the wars between Islam and Christendom in the Crusades, to the modern clash of European Enlightenment and then colonialism with the Islamic societies of the East, culminating in the continuing tensions of the twenty-first century.