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The Rise of the West
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1963
- Pages
- Pages 830
Oswald Spengler had already pronounced the West in decline, and Arnold Toynbee had filed the past into civilizations that rose and died like sealed organisms, each shut inside its own weather. McNeill's reply runs to eight hundred pages, begins in the silt of Mesopotamia, and rests on a single insistence: no people has ever been an island.
Without irony, therefore, I hope my book may be richly and repeatedly misunderstood.
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