Monday, March 21, 2016

Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year struggle between East and West

Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West
By Anthony Pagden
625 pages
The author begins in antiquity, with the conflict between Greece and the Persian Empire, and basically ended the publication with the conflict between America and Saddam Hussein.  The author expressed his thoughts that the conflict was not cultural but strictly religious.  According to Pagden, both the West (Christianity) and the East (Islam) contributed to the conflict.


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