{"product_id":"how-the-world-made-the-west-9781526605221","title":"How the World Made the West","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAncient Greece and Rome have long been considered the parents of Western civilisation. But the ancient world was a very wide one, of conversation, commerce and theft, sex, war and enslavement. It was this restless global contact that built the West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Why did Macedonian generals steal elephants from India to rule new realms? How did the lewd graffiti left by foreign workers in Egypt form the basis of the alphabet? In a voyage through space and time, from the Levant of 2000 BC to the dawn of the Age of Exploration, Josephine Quinn rewrites the story of the West  and in doing so, offers us a new history of our shared past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA truly encyclopaedic and monumental account of the ancient world' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFull of little gem-likes shifts of perspective' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eScintillates with its focus on the unexpected' \u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eA work of great confidence, empathy, learning and imagination' Rory Stewart\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eThis is, in every way, a big book' \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50578155405655,"sku":"9781526605221","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526605221.jpg?v=1746098136","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/how-the-world-made-the-west-9781526605221","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}