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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 -
Shahnameh
by Abolqasem Ferdowsi, abridged and translated by Dick Davis -
The Tailor-King
by Anthony Arthur -
The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II
by Edvard Radzinsky -
The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture
by Peter Garnsey & Richard Saller
