Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam by Wheatcroft, Andrew

Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam

Here is the first panoptic history of the long struggle between the Christian West and Islam. In...
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Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam by Wheatcroft, Andrew

Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam

¥3,629

Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam

¥3,629
Author: Andrew Wheatcroft
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Here is the first panoptic history of the long struggle between the Christian West and Islam.

In this dazzlingly written, acutely nuanced account, Andrew Wheatcroft tracks a deep fault line of animosity between civilizations. He begins with a stunning account of the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, then turns to the main zones of conflict: Spain, from which the descendants of the Moors were eventually expelled; the Middle East, where Crusaders and Muslims clashed for years; and the Balkans, where distant memories spurred atrocities even into the twentieth century. Throughout, Wheatcroft delves beneath stereotypes, looking incisively at how images, ideas, language, and technology (from the printing press to the Internet), as well as politics, religion, and conquest, have allowed each side to demonize the other, revive old grievances, and fuel across centuries a seemingly unquenchable enmity. Finally, Wheatcroft tells how this fraught history led to our present maelstrom. We cannot, he argues, come to terms with today's perplexing animosities without confronting this dark past.

Author: Andrew Wheatcroft
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 05/03/2005
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.24w x 1.07d
ISBN: 9780812972399


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/26/2005 pg. 24

About the Author
ANDREW WHEATCROFT is the author of many books including The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire, The Ottomans: Dissolving Images, and (with John Keegan) Zones of Conflict: An Atlas of Future Wars. One of the first scholars to use photography in writing the history of the Middle East, he has made art and images a central focus of his work. He is director of the international postgraduate Centre for Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling in Scotland.


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