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“If you like large-scale, broad history, there’s How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History by historian and archaeologist Josephine Quinn. The book opens in 2000 BCE in the town of Byblos, in modern-day Lebanon, bustling as a result of the advent of open sea sailing (though Quinn also discusses the invention of the wheel on the Eurasian Steppe) and goes up to the beginnings of the age of exploration. “ Read more...
Nonfiction Books to Look Out for in Early 2024
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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The Return of Martin Guerre
by Natalie Zemon Davis -
Vermeer's Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world
by Timothy Brook -
Sketches of Persia
by Sir John Malcolm -
Ionian Vision
by Michael Llewellyn Smith -
Elizabeth I
by Helen Castor -
When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria 1900-1958
by Saheed Aderinto
