The triumph of the West.

From: National Review | Date: April 24, 1987| Author: | Copyright information

The Triumph of the West

by J. M.Roberts (Little, Brown, 325 pp., $19.95)

ACCORDING TO J. M. Roberts, Westerncivilization "has become exactly what so many in the nineteenth century believed it ought to become: the first world civilization.' How it accomplished this is the burden of Roberts's story.

Roberts sees two central myths "atthe heart of the Western view of history. One is the idea that men are, in some sense, able to take charge of their destinies, they are autonomous. The other is the idea that history is meaningful because it has direction; it is going ...

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