Some books are summed up on the cover, as these two are. The astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell expands the old link between geography and history to explain ‘how Earth’s history shaped human history,’ in an account of our origins that reaches all the way
Enmeshed with microhistories, we yearn for great narratives. The Annales school taught us to look at the longue durée of history under the prism of geography and economics, and there is perhaps no better expression of its method than La Méditerranée
David Christian
2019
Penguin - 368 Pages
James C. Scott A Deep History of the Earliest States
Daniel Lord Smail
Berkeley, Los Angeles 2008
Oneworld /UC Press - 368 Pages
Felipe Fernández-Armesto What We Think and How We Came to Think It
Niall Ferguson Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
Jared Diamond How Nations cope with crisis and change
