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Book Cover for: The Dictionary of Global Culture: What Every American Needs to Know as We Enter the Next Century--From Diderot to Bo Diddley, Kwame Anthony Appiah

The Dictionary of Global Culture: What Every American Needs to Know as We Enter the Next Century--From Diderot to Bo Diddley

Kwame Anthony Appiah

From two of America's most esteemed and influential scholars comes an authoritative guide to world culture emphasizing the achievement of the non-Western world. Ranging from the Abassid Dynasty to Zydeco Music, The Dictionary of Global Culture provides a vast survey of subjects from all over the world, including entries on writers, musicians, deities, rulers, philosophies, and artistic forms. 512 pp. Media tour. National ads. 50,000 print.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Publish Date: Dec 29th, 1998
  • Pages: 736
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.48in - 5.58in - 1.82in - 2.10lb
  • EAN: 9780679729853
  • Categories: ReferenceWorld - GeneralDictionaries

About the Author

Kwame Anthony Appiah, the president of the PEN American Center, is the author of The Ethics of Identity, Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy, The Honor Code, and the prize-winning Cosmopolitanism. Raised in Ghana and educated in England, he has taught philosophy on three continents and is currently a professor at Princeton University.