The West AC25 'A beautiful

'A beautiful

This account of his early life reveals how it influenced his books Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism

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The West AC25 'A beautiful*A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week* 'A fantastic achievement' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads 'Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this deliciously witty book has the potential to upset the applecart of "Western Civilisation" itself Magnificent' Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb _________________ A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives. We tend to imagine Western