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Synopsis
Sweeping in scope, Civilization is the story of the western world from its origins to the present. It ends with an assessment of civilization’s current state in light of its past, and an indication of how it might go about the task of renewing itself.
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About the Author
Roger Osborne was a publisher of scientific, medical and technical books before becoming a full-time writer. He is the author of The Floating Egg and The Deprat Affair.
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Review
"The book is a brilliant example of authorial brevity, the writing neither hurried nor baldly functional" -- Edward Vallance * BBC History Magazine * "An immensely important book and an exhilarating read" -- Gregor Dallas * Literary Review * "It is a bold adventurer who proposes to survey the history of Western civilization in a mere 500 pages, and not only to say something fresh about many aspects of it, but to do so in a spirit of perceptive scepticism that refuses to go along with standard views and reflex valuations. Roger Osborne offers himself this challenge and meets it brilliantly" -- A.C. Grayling * Independent on Sunday * "Roger Osborne's absorbing blockbuster... is an admirable achievement: a coherent narrative that gallops from the painting of the Lascaux buffalo to the cloning of Dolly the Sheep, from the Beaker people to the McDonald's people, in fewer than 500 crisply written pages" -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent * "Urgent, compelling, breathtaking in scope, Osborne's Civilization confronts the vital question of our time" -- John Carey
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- PublisherPimlico
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0712691383
- ISBN 13 9780712691383
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages544
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