Books by Christopher Ehret
“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
Interviews where books by Christopher Ehret were recommended
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Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
by Tom Holland -
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Vergil: The Poet's Life
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Ian Fleming: The Complete Man
by Nicholas Shakespeare -
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The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers
by Kate Kitagawa & Timothy Revell -
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The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism
by Sebastian Edwards
Notable Nonfiction of Fall 2023, recommended by Sophie Roell
Notable Nonfiction of Fall 2023, recommended by Sophie Roell
As summer collapses into fall across the northern hemisphere, Five Books editor Sophie Roell takes a look at the nonfiction books that have been published over the last three months. Reading serious nonfiction books remains the easiest way to get up to speed on not only things you’re already interested in, but lots of things you didn’t know you didn’t know.
