How the World Made the West

An award-winning Oxford history professor “makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve” ( The Wall Street Journal )—that the West is, and always has been, truly global. “Those archaic ‘Western Civ’ classes so many of us took in college should be updated, argues Quinn, [who] invites us to . . . revel in a richer, more polyglot inheritance.”— The Boston Globe AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE In How the World Made the West , Josephine Qu