Download or read book The Triumph of the West written by J. M. Roberts and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating and authoritative account, greatly expanded from a 13-part television series, of the history of western civilization from its earliest roots. J.M. Roberts uncovers what it was that gave European culture its confident energy for so many centuries while exposing its flaws and its irreversible impact on the rest of the world.