This has become the standard version of Western history, both canonical and clichéd.
This story imagines Western history as unfurling backward in time through the Enlightenment, the brightness of the Renaissance and the darkness of the Middle Ages, all the way to its origin in the classical worlds of Greece and Rome-“from Plato to NATO,” as a popular 1998 history book put it. Prize-winning historian Naoíse Mac Sweeney delivers a captivating exploration of how “Western civilization”-the concept of a single cultural inheritance extending from ancient Greece to modern times-is a powerful figment of our collective imagination.
The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives
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