Introduction Obsessed with origins
Chapter 1 The rejection of purity: Herodotus
Chapter 2 The Asian Europeans: Livilla
Chapter 3 The global heirs of antiquity: Al-Kindī
Chapter 4 The Asian Europeans again: Godfrey of Viterbo
Chapter 5 The illusion of Christendom: Theodore Laskaris
Chapter 6 The reimagining of antiquity: Tullia D'Aragona
Chapter 7 The path not trodden: Safiye Sultan
Chapter 8 The West and knowledge: Francis Bacon
Chapter 9 The West and empire: Njinga of Angola
Chapter 10 The West and politics: Joseph Warren
Chapter 11 The West and race: Phyllis Wheatley
Chapter 12 The West and modernity: William Ewart Gladstone
Chapter 13 The West and its critics: Edward Said
Chapter 14 The West and its rivals: Carrie Lam
Conclusion The shape of history
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Further reading
Index.