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Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
Moving from London to Kuala Lumpur, Australia to the West Indies, a critically acclaimed historian paints a vivid portrait of the British Empire at the peak of its global reach in the 1920s and the moment it began to collapse.
Author
Publisher
Bombardier Books, an imprint of Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Without the Byzantine Empire, there never would have been Western civilization. Western civilization is generally regarded as the child of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome. That is, in the West, our philosophical and political thought is derived from that of the ancient Greeks; our Christian religion comes from the Jewish religion, and both of these came to us via the Roman Empire and the civilization and culture it created. Western society has other...