Preface ; 1. Perpetual Enmity ; 2. In the Shadow of Alexander ; 3. A World of Citizens ; 4. The Church Triumphant ; 5. The Coming of Islam ; 6. Houses of War ; 7. The Present Terror of the World ; 8. Science Ascendant ; 9. Enlightened Orientalism ; 10. The Mohammed of the West ; 11. The Eastward Course of Empire ; 12. Epilogue: Towards the Future
Anthony Pagden has published widely on both Spanish and European history and has worked as a translator and as a publisher in addition to his many academic posts. He taught at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard before a professorship at Johns Hopkins University, and he is currently Distinguished Professor of Political Science and History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
There is much top admire in Pagden's book. His bredth of knowledge across two and a half millenia of Western (and to a great extent Eastern) history is impressive... As an intellectual history of Western views of the East, the book is exemplary. Ian Garrick Mason. Spectator. 'Worlds at War' offers some fine vignettes...witty, provocative conversation from a sage. Economist Learned, fluent and thoroughly entertaining account. Dominic Sandbrook. Telegraph Review.
There is much top admire in Pagden's book. His bredth of knowledge across two and a half millenia of Western (and to a great extent Eastern) history is impressive... As an intellectual history of Western views of the East, the book is exemplary. Ian Garrick Mason. Spectator. 'Worlds at War' offers some fine vignettes...witty, provocative conversation from a sage. Economist Learned, fluent and thoroughly entertaining account. Dominic Sandbrook. Telegraph Review.
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