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Peoples and Empires by Anthony Pagden
Category: History
Drawing upon literary, anthropological and historical sources from throughout Europe, author Anthony Pagden tells the stories of the great movement of peoples throughout European history.
Peoples and Empires - A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present by Anthony Pagden
Category: History | Series: Modern Library Chronicles Ser.
Cambridge professor and renowned historian Anthony Pagden covers a vast subject in a compact package with Peoples and Empires. This wide-ranging and intellectually stimulating work examines the origins and history of the West with terse, efficient prose. With a captivating narration by Robert O'Keefe, l ...Show more
The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters by Anthony Pagden
Category: History
The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters tells nothing less than the story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born. Cultural and intellectual historian Anthony Pagden explains how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Weste ...Show more
The Pursuit of Europe - A History by Anthony Pagden
Category: History
The European Union, we are told, is facing extinction. Most of those who believe that, however, have no understanding of how, and why, it become possible to imagine that the diverse peoples of Europe might be united in a single political community. The Pursuit of Europe tells the story of the evolution ...Show more
Worlds at War - The 2,500-year struggle between East and West by Anthony Pagden
Category: History
The differences that divide West from East go deeper than politics, deeper than religion, argues Anthony Pagden. To understand this volatile relationship, and how it has played out over the centuries, we need to go back before the Crusades, before the birth of Islam, before the birth of Christianity, to ...Show more
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