Jumia Books The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives by Naoise Mac Sweeney

and “A bold, sweeping bird’s eye view of thousands of years of history that provides a truly global perspective of the past. A fantastic achievement. and “–Peter Frankopan, internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads Prize-winning historian Naoise Mac Sweeney delivers a captivating exploration of how and “Western Civilization and “–the concept of a single cultural inheritance extending from ancient Greece to modern times–is a powerful figment of our collective imagination. An urgently needed emergent voice in big history, she offers a bold new account of Western history, real and imagined, through the lives of fourteen remarkable individuals.