Recommendations from our site
“Much broader in scope is a new book called Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE by Christopher Ehret, a professor at UCLA. Ehret rejects the ‘artificial separation of our human story into something called ‘history’ and something else called ‘prehistory’’ and starts his story in 68,000 BCE. I love this approach and just wish it was taught more in school. As he writes, ‘Barely more than fifty thousand years ago, the primary ancestors of every single human being alive today lived in eastern Africa. World history to that point was African history.'” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction of Fall 2023
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
by Nandini Das -
Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
by Nicholas Radburn -
Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best Loved Institution
by Andrew Seaton -
Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
by Jonny Steinberg -
Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022
by Frank Trentmann -
Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
by Joya Chatterji
