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Naoíse Mac Sweeney. 2023. The West: A New History of an Old Idea (London: W.H. Allen [Penguin Random House], 2013, 437 pp., 14 illustr., hbk ISBN 978-0-7535-5892-8)

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Naoíse Mac Sweeney. 2023. The West: A New History of an Old Idea (London: W.H. Allen [Penguin Random House], 2013, 437 pp., 14 illustr., hbk ISBN 978-0-7535-5892-8)

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Lucia Nixon
Lucia Nixon*
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Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK lucia.nixon@classics.ox.ac.uk
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European Journal of Archaeology , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , November 2023 , pp. 542 - 547
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the European Association of Archaeologists

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