世界如何创造了西方 How the World Made the West

基本信息

Format:Paperback 560 pages

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)

Imprint:Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN:9781526605191

Published:29 Feb 2024

Dimensions:234 x 153 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

据说，西方是在古希腊和古罗马的思想和价值观基础上建立起来的，这些思想和价值观在黑暗时代从欧洲消失，然后被文艺复兴重新发现。但如果事实并非如此呢？

约瑟芬-奎恩（Josephine Quinn）在这本大胆而宏大的巨著中指出，西方的真实故事远比这一既定范式让我们相信的要大得多。维多利亚时代形成的 "文明 "概念淹没了我们共同的历史。

从青铜时代到探险时代，《世界如何创造了西方》揭示了一种新的叙事方式：这种叙事方式追溯了数千年的全球相遇和交流，这些相遇和交流造就了现在所谓的西方，各个社会在此相遇、纠缠，有时又分道扬镳。从埃及的黎凡特工人创造了字母表--他们在异国他乡初次用自己的语言书写事物，到印度人通过阿拉伯世界来到欧洲，奎恩用事实证明，孤立地理解社会既不合时宜，也是错误的。推动历史变革的是接触和联系，而不是孤立的文明。创造历史的不是民族，而是人。

The West, the story goes, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages and were then rediscovered by the Renaissance. But what if that isn't true?

In a bold and magisterial work of immense scope, Josephine Quinn argues that the real story of the West is much bigger than this established paradigm leads us to believe. So much of our shared history has been lost, drowned out by the concept – developed in the Victorian era – of separate 'civilisations'.

Moving from the Bronze Age to the Age of Exploration, How the World Made the West reveals a new narrative: one that traces the millennia of global encounters and exchange that built what is now called the West, as societies met, tangled and sometimes grew apart. From the creation of the alphabet by Levantine workers in Egypt, who in a foreign land were prompted to write things down in their own language for the first time, to the arrival of Indian numbers in Europe via the Arab world, Quinn makes the case that understanding societies in isolation is both out-of-date and wrong. It is contact and connections, rather than solitary civilisations, that drive historical change. It is not peoples that make history – people do.

作者简介

约瑟芬-奎恩是牛津大学古代史教授、马丁-弗雷德里克森研究员和牛津大学伍斯特学院古代史导师。她还是纽约公共图书馆库尔曼学者和作家中心的研究员。

Josephine Quinn is a professor of ancient history at Oxford University, a Martin Frederiksen fellow, and a tutor of ancient history at Worcester College, Oxford. She has also been a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.