Is it time to give up on Western civilisation?
My Telegraph review of Naoise Mac Sweeney's "The West"
Is it time to retire Western Civilisation? Historian and archaeologist Naoíse Mac Sweeney certainly thinks so, and this big-picture history is her manifesto. The West is presented through the lives of historical figures whose stories cut against the Western grand narrative, which, as Mac Sweeney sees it, posits a pure and exclusive tradition running “fr…
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