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Podcast: Life Elsewhere
Episode: A Unique History Of The West. A Love Letter To A Transgender Child.
Description: Naoise Mac Sweeney - Â The West: A New History In Fourteen Lives
Prize-winning historian NaoÃse Mac Sweeney delivers a captivating exploration of how Western Civilization the concept of a single cultural inheritance extending from ancient Greece to modern times - is a powerful figment of our collective imagination. An urgently needed emergent voice in big history, she offers a bold new account of Western history, real and imagined, through the lives of fourteen remarkable individuals. From Herodotus, a mixed-race migrant, to Phylis Wheatley, an enslaved African American who became a literary sensation; and from Gladstone, with a pri...