This book’s full title is How the World Made the West: a 4,000 Year History. Josephine Quinn is a professor of Ancient History and so she has concentrated on how the Ancient World shaped the Western World. Of course it did.
I also think that West was highly influenced their experience by their discovery of the Americas and their movement to the Americas. Josephine Quinn talks about the discovery of the Americas in a very short few pages at the end of her book. But this is understandable as she is into Ancient History.
Just as the Germanic tribes were forced into the Roman Empire by the Mongol Tribes, Western Europe was forced to go further west first the by Arab Tribes and then Turkish Tribes that took over the Middle East, North Africa, the eastern Mediterranean Sea, and Balkans. The western history with the Americas may have only been over 500 years compared the 4,000 years of Ancient History, but it is still a long time.
I also have found that few people realize that the Eastern Roman Empire lasted another 1,000 years to 1453 after Rome was no longer the center of the Roman Empire.
There is an interesting review of this book by Steven Poole in the Guardian. There are some interesting reviews at Amazon at the bottom of the page, including one quite negative one. There is an interesting and short review at Kirkus Reviews. Andrew Wilson on TGC I thought has the most thoughtful and enlighten review of this book.
Josephine Quinn at the Jaipur Literature Festival talks about her book. Josephine Quinn is interviewed by William Dalrymple. Josephine Quinn gives a lecture for around 14 minutes. Josephine Quinn is interviewed by Greg LaBlanc.
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