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  Published 2008
  
 
Spanning two and a half millennia, Anthony Pagden’s mesmerizing Worlds at War delves deep into the roots of the
“clash of civilizations” between East and West that has always been a battle over ideas, and whose issues
have never been more urgent.
  
  Worlds At War begins in the ancient world, where Greece saw its fight
against the Persian Empire as one between freedom and slavery, between monarchy and democracy, between individuality and
the worship of men as gods. Here, richly rendered, are the crucial battle of Marathon, considered the turning point of
Greek and European history; the heroic attempt by the Greeks to turn the Persians back at Thermopylae; and Salamis, one
of the greatest naval battles of all time, which put an end to the Persian threat forever.
  
  From there
Pagden’s story sweeps to Rome, which created the modern concepts of citizenship and the rule of law.
Rome’s leaders believed those they conquered to be free, while the various peoples of the East persisted in
seeing their subjects as property. Pagden dramatizes the birth of Christianity in the East and its use in the West as an
instrument of government, setting the stage for what would become, and has remained, a global battle of the secular
against the sacred. Then Islam, at first ridiculed in Christian Europe, drives Pope Urban II to launch the Crusades,
which transform the relationship between East and West into one of competing religious beliefs.
  
  Modern
times bring a first world war, which among its many murky aims seeks to redesign the Muslim world by force. In our own
era, Muslims now find themselves in unwelcoming Western societies, while the West seeks to enforce democracy and its own
secular values through occupation in the East. Pagden ends on a cautionary note, warning that terrorism and war will
continue as long as sacred and secular remain confused in the minds of so many.
  Eye-opening and compulsively
readable, Worlds at War is a stunning work of history and a triumph of modern scholarship. It is bound to become the
definitive work on the reasons behind the age-old and still escalating struggle that, more than any other, has come to
define the modern world–a book for anyone seeking to know why “we came to be the way we are.”
 

  From the Hardcover edition.
  
  From Publishers Weekly
  
  In the pessimistic words of the
ancient historian Herodotus, there will ever be perpetual enmity between the globe's two halves. Pagden (Peoples and
Empires), a professor of political science and history at UCLA, tackles the immense sweep of 2,500 years of bad blood
and seeks to explain the feud's continuing existence despite the increasing erosion of national differences. Does the
trouble have geographical roots, or might it stem from religious differences? Pagden is convinced that in fact East and
West are separated more by values and culture than by anything else—democratic vs. authoritarian rule, secular
vs. theocratic and, later, Christian vs. Muslim. Though some readers might cavil at Pagden's reductionist assertion that
religion has caused more lasting harm to the human race than any other single set of beliefs, his book is an accessible
and lucid exploration of the history of the East-West split, concluding with a nuanced look at the divisions and
misapprehensions that continue to the present time. Fans of Jacques Barzun and Jared Diamond will be most impressed by
Pagden's big picture perspective. (Mar. 4) 
  Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier
Inc. All rights reserved.
  
  From Booklist
  
  Plumbing millennia of conflict between European
civilizations and those of the Near East, historian Pagden outlines historical antecedents to present frictions between
the secular West and the Muslim world. If the collisions between Greek and Persian, Roman and barbarian, Christian and
pagan, Christian and Muslim, and imperialist and nationalist have something in common, according to Pagden, it is the
rivalry of universalistic ideas about humanity and providence. Through each of these pairs of opposites, Pagden
introduces intellectuals of the age who puzzled over their cultural adversary, often in response to a calamity, such as
the Crusaders’ capture of Jerusalem in 1099 or the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. Their analyses,
whose realism or logic Pagden critiques, for returning humanity to its providential destination, be it Christianity,
Islam, or liberal democracy, slot into the author’s chronological narrative of major exacerbations of West-East
animosity, from the Trojan War to the Iraq War. Inquisitive and incisive about the sweep of history, Pagden will connect
with readers wanting to deepen their grasp of contemporary news. --Gilbert Taylor 						

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