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Georgios Varouxakis, "The West: The History of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2025)

New Books in Intellectual History

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Why Britain was slow to adopt 'the West'

Varouxakis explains Britain's insularity and different historical memory delayed British self-identification as part of the West.

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