Description
Product ID: | 9780571216406 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Why the West has Won |
Authors: | Author: Victor Davis Hanson |
Page Count: | 512 |
Subjects: | General and world history, General & world history, History: specific events and topics, Cultural studies, Violence and abuse in society, Battles and campaigns, History: specific events & topics, Cultural studies, Violence in society, Battles & campaigns |
Description: | Select Guide Rating This is a brilliant history of the rise to dominance of the West, exploring the links between cultural values and military success. This is a brilliant history of the rise to dominance of the West, exploring the links between cultural values and military success. Instead of weighing up the West through its cultural and literary accomplishments, Hanson engages with the much starker record of the Western battlefield. In place of The Great Books, he studies The Great Battles, and offers graphic representations of nine representative clashes between West and non-West. Hanson writes uncommonly well about battle, and has an uncanny ability to evoke the chaos and terror of warfare, so crystallising his argument into records of a few hours of intense combat. |
Imprint Name: | Faber & Faber |
Publisher Name: | Faber & Faber |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2002-11-04 |