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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691177182ISBN-10:069117718XUPC:9780691177182Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Western Europe, Modern, History & TheoryBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.30 x 6.20 x 1.70 inchesWeight:1.9511Product ID:SC52EM60JD
The West: The History of an Idea
A comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the West
How did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did "Westerners" begin to refer to themselves in this way? Was the idea handed down from the ancient Greeks, or coined by nineteenth-century imperialists? Neither, writes Georgios Varouxakis in The West, his ambitious...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691177182ISBN-10:069117718XUPC:9780691177182Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Western Europe, Modern, History & TheoryBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.30 x 6.20 x 1.70 inchesWeight:1.9511Product ID:SC52EM60JD
Georgios Varouxakis is professor of the history of political thought in the School of History at Queen Mary University of London and Codirector of the Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought. He is the author of Mill on Nationality, Victorian Political Thought on France and the French, and Liberty Abroad: J. S. Mill on International Relations and the coauthor of Contemporary...
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