North/South: The Great European Divide

"Ricardo Quinones offers a sweeping exploration into the North and South division in which he succinctly describes not only his own perspective, but also perspectives of early modern to modern writers, scholars, philosophers, and statesmen…This intellectual history offers an intriguing view of the origin of the Europe’s North-South division that continues to the present."

Jennifer Tellman, Louisiana State University, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol xlix, no 2, Summer 2018

“This is an excellent and intellectually stimulating book, inviting the reader to ponder the unconventional interpretations offered by the author.”

Erika Rummel, Department of History, University of Toronto

“In North/South, Ricardo J. Quinones eloquently moves from the greatest writers, to the greatest historians of ideas to the actual history as it occurred on the ground. The author’s erudite and thought-provoking work goes a long way toward straightening out the complex cultural history that divides the fate of north and south. North/South is the culmination of a lifetime of thinking and writing about the great literature, the key ideas, and the broader cultural history that unfolded with such marked contrast in two different realms of the modern world.”

David M. Hertz, Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University