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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 625 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Spanning two and a half millennia, historian Pagden delves deep into the roots of the "clash of civilizations" between East and West that has always been a battle over ideas, and whose issues have never been more urgent. He begins in the ancient world, where Greece saw its fight against the Persian Empire as one between freedom and slavery, between monarchy and democracy. From there the story sweeps to Rome, which created the modern concepts of citizenship...
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