Classicism
How the West Invented the Ancient World
$33.53
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
10 February 2027
Summary
We’ve been sold a story about the ancient world: Greece gave us democracy, Rome gave us law, and the West inherited the lot. It’s a neat, noble timeline. It is also a dangerous lie. In Classicism: How the West Invented the Ancient World, Marchella Ward reveals this specific version of history for what it really is: not a neutral record of facts, but the structural foundation for modern Islamophobia.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745352510 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0745352510 |
| Author: | Marchella Ward |
| Publisher: | Pluto Press |
| Imprint: | Pluto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 10 February 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘Expansive, urgent, essential reading on the politics of the past. Marchella Ward undertakes a forensic and sometimes unsettling excavation of the foundations of Islamophobia. Classicism begins for cultural history the work that Edward Said’s Orientalism performed for cultural geography’
– Dan Hicks, author of The Brutish Museums and World War Zero‘This is a bold, thought-provoking book that challenges the Eurocentrism at the heart of Classical Studies, offering an impressive intervention at a time of ongoing genocide. It exposes how classicism underwrites ethno-nationalism through its exclusionary and ultimately genocidal logic, dismantling any lingering claims to the innocence of Classical Studies’
– Salman Sayyid, Professsor of Decolonial Thought and Rhetoric, University of LeedsMarchella Ward
Marchella Ward is Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University. Her work focuses on the politics of the past, centering decoloniality and the role of historical practice in solidarity with the occupied and the oppressed.
She is the author of several books, including Classical Reception: A Very Short Introduction, and her writing has appeared in the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement. She is the founder of the Society for the Study of the Past, a new global subject organisation dedicated to history as a tool of solidarity, and a co-host of the Radio ReOrient podcast on the New Books Network.
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