Worlds at War: The 2,500 - Year Struggle Between East and West
- ISBN-10
- 0199237433
- ISBN-13
- 9780199237432
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 548
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-03-13
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Anthony Pagden
Description
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.
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