Four Cultures of the West (Hardcover) by John W O'Malley

9780674014985. New condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 261. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 261 p. A combination of great learning with simplicity of language, elegance of style, and narrative gifts. Whatever our place in the culture wars of our troubled present we will learn to see ourselves differently from O'Malley's analysis of stles of thought and expression flourishing side by side in what we call Western culture.