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Worlds at war : the 2,500-year struggle between East and West

"The wars between East and West have not only been the longest and most costly in human history, they have also formed the West's vision of itself as independent, free, secular, and now democratic. They have shaped, and continue to shape, the nature of the modern world."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, 2008
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008
History
xxvi, 548 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780199237432, 9780199569779, 0199237433, 0199569770
182552855
Perpetual enmity
In the shadow of Alexander
A world of citizens
The Church triumphant
The coming of Islam
Houses of war
The present terror of the world
Science ascendant
Enlightened Orientalism
The Muhammad of the West
The eastward course of empire
Epilogue : towards the future