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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 -
America Eats
by Nelson Algren -
Five Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov -
Tradition, Treaties, and Trade: Qing Imperialism and Choson Korea, 1850-1910
by Kirk W. Larsen -
The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
by Kenneth Pomeranz
