About the Author

Brett Bowden is a senior lecturer in politics at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra.

Reviews

"This is an extremely erudite book that clearly illustrates Brett Bowden's mastery of a wide variety of philosophical and historical sources. There is a lot of very interesting material here that is of enormous relevance to any contemporary intellectual reader attempting to place the concepts of 'civilization' and 'civilizations' in their proper historical contexts." - Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, American University"