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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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Vermeer's Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world
by Timothy Brook -
The Return of Martin Guerre
by Natalie Zemon Davis -
The Asian Military Revolution
by Peter A Lorge -
Poverty and Piety in an English Village: Terling, 1525-1700
by David Levine & Keith Wrightson -
Golden Trade of the Moors: West African Kingdoms in the Fourteenth Century
by E.W. Bovill -
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
by Rick Atkinson
