In the tradition of Jared Diamond and Jacques Barzun, prize-winning historian Anthony Pagden presents a sweeping history of the long struggle between East and West, from the Greeks to the present day. The relationship between East and West has always been one of turmoil. In this historical tour de force, a rewned historian leads us from the world of classical antiquity, through the Dark Ages, to the Crusades, Europe's resurgence, and the dominance of the Ottoman Empire, which almost shattered Europe entirely. Pagden travels from Napoleon in Egypt to Europe's carving up of the finally moribund Ottomans-creating the modern Middle East along the way-and on to the present struggles in Iraq. Throughout we learn a tremendous amount about what East and West were and are, and how it has always been competing worldviews and psychologies, more than religion or power grabs, that have fed the mistrust and violence between East and West. In Pagden's dark but provocative view, this struggle cant help but go on.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
ISBN-10
140010629x
ISBN-13
9781400106295
eBay Product ID (ePID)
104380985
Product Key Features
Author
Mr. Anthony Pagden
Format
CD, CD Standard Audio Format
Language
English
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Old Saybrook, Ct
Running Time
1230
Narrator(s)
John Lee
Author Biography
Anthony Pagden is a professor in the history and political science departments at the University of California, Los Angeles and the author of Peoples and Empires. John Lee has read audiobooks in almost every conceivable genre, from Charles Dickens to Patrick O'Brian, and from the very real life of Napoleon to the entirely imagined lives of sorcerers and swashbucklers. An AudioFile Golden Voice narrator, he is the winner of numerous Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards.