How the West Was Lost

by Alexander Boot

Book Overview

What made the West western ? And has Western civilisation found modernity but lost itself? This provocative and stimulating polemic argues that western culture and civilisation have been destroyed not only in, but indeed by, modernity. How the West Was Lost argues that all modern upheavals the Reformation, the English, American, French and Russian Revolutions, the Napoleonic Wars, the American Civil War, both World Wars can only be understood if seen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784534609
• ISBN13: 9781784534608
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"