Worlds at War : The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West

from lucasdwi

Pagden starts the history of the conflict between East and West with the Greeks and the Persians. From there he winds the story through its eponymous 2500 year journey to the present. Within the book is a wide scope of history, due to the breadth of information, Pagden sacrifices a level of detai...

from TeaTimeCoder

Competent but not a very novel retelling of world history. The running theme seems very much in the background despite constant callbacks. Maybe that's why you need the callbacks - because it's not really visible otherwise.

from Scapegoats

This is a very thorough book on how the East and West understood one another for the last 2,500 years. By "East", Pagden means western Asia, roughly the Middle-East, rather than the east Asia, which is the more fashionable topic recently. He starts with the Greeks and the Persians, whom he sees a...