Josephine Quinn

How the World Made the West

A 4,000 Year History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 132mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780593729809
• ISBN-10: 0593729803
• Artikelnr.: 74921142

Autorenporträt

Josephine Quinn is Professor of Ancient History at Oxford University and Martin Frederiksen Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Worcester College, Oxford. She has degrees from Oxford and University of California, Berkeley; has taught in America, Italy, and the UK; and co-directed the Tunisian-British archaeological excavations at Utica. She is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books , as well as to radio and television programs. She is the author of one previous book, the award-winning In Search of the Phoenicians, and lives in Oxford.

Rezensionen

Quinn keeps the revelations coming at a fair lick . . . 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. In 400 crisp pages, 30 societies are paraded before us with comparative reflection and world-weary wit. Better still, Quinn's book is polemical. These days, far too many academic historians worship at the altar of nuance rather than argument, with the result that the reader closes the book not with a spirit of contentment, but rather with a question: so what? Not here

A revelatory account of how the ancient world was much wider and more interconnected than traditionally thought - and the lessons that holds for today What to Read in 2024 Financial Times