TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mac Sweeney,Naoíse
TI  - The West: a new history in fourteen lives 
SN  - 9780593472170
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - [New York, New York]
PB  - Dutton
KW  - Civilization, Western
KW  - History
KW  - Historiography
KW  - World history
KW  - Europe
KW  - Civilization
N1  - Place of publication from publisher's website; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: The importance of origins -- The rejection of purity: Herodotus -- The Asian Europeans: Livilla -- The global heirs of antiquity: Al-Kindī -- The Asian Europeans again: Godfrey of Viterbo -- The illusion of Christendom: Theodore Laskaris -- The reimagining of antiquity: Tullia D'Aragona -- The path not trodden: Safiye Sultan -- The West and knowledge: Francis Bacon -- The West and empire: Njinga of Angola -- The West and politics: Joseph Warren -- The West and race: Phyllis Wheatley -- The West and modernity: William Ewart Gladstone -- The West and its critics: Edward Said -- The West and its rivals: Carrie Lam -- Conclusion: The shape of history
N2  - "A captivating exploration of how "Western Civilization"--the concept of a single cultural inheritance extending from ancient Greece to modern times--is a powerful figment of our collective imagination"--
ER  -