Anthony Pagden is distinguished professor of political science and history at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was educated in Chile, Spain, and France, and at Oxford. In the past two decades, he has been the reader in intellectual history at Cambridge, a fellow of King’s College, a visiting professor at Harvard, and Harry C. Black Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of many prizewinning books, including Peoples and Empires: A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present and European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism. Pagden contributes regularly to such publications as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and The New Republic.
“Bold, panoramic and highly readable, at times a page-turner.”
–The New York Times Book Review
“A masterpiece of stunning scope, readability, and relevance.
Worlds at War makes epic battles of the past come alive as
illuminations of what is happening today in Iraq, Iran, and
Afghanistan.”
–Strobe Talbott, author of The Great Experiment
“A grand synthesis of military and intellectual history, political
philosophy and theology, Worlds at War delivers the old-fashioned
pleasures of vivid prose and lively narration.”
–Newsday
“Absorbing . . . Pagden writes smart, fluent, lively prose. His
book is a pleasure to read.”
–The Houston Chronicle
“If you are going to read only one book on the Manichaean struggle
between East and West, this is the book.”
–Efraim Karsh, author of Islamic Imperialism: A History
“Splendid . . . learned, fluent and thoroughly entertaining.”
–National Post (Canada)
“Timely and provocative . . . enlightening.”
–Cleveland Plain Dealer
Winner of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy Book Prize
"Bold, panoramic and highly readable, at times a page-turner."
-The New York Times Book Review
"A masterpiece of stunning scope, readability, and relevance.
Worlds at War makes epic battles of the past come alive as
illuminations of what is happening today in Iraq, Iran, and
Afghanistan."
-Strobe Talbott, author of The Great Experiment
"A grand synthesis of military and intellectual history, political
philosophy and theology, Worlds at War delivers the old-fashioned
pleasures of vivid prose and lively narration."
-Newsday
"Absorbing . . . Pagden writes smart, fluent, lively prose. His
book is a pleasure to read."
-The Houston Chronicle
"If you are going to read only one book on the Manichaean struggle
between East and West, this is the book."
-Efraim Karsh, author of Islamic Imperialism: A History
"Splendid . . . learned, fluent and thoroughly entertaining."
-National Post (Canada)
"Timely and provocative . . . enlightening."
-Cleveland Plain Dealer
Winner of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy Book
Prize
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