This is a list of books I’m likely to mention in today’s Archaeology and Anthropology panel.
Historical Geography is the study of how a place changes over time, with a focus on human economic and cultural interaction.
- The Fields Beneath, The History of One London Village, by Gillian Tindall
- The Man Who Drew London, Wenceslaus Hollar in Reality and Imagination, by Gillian Tindall
- London, The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
- The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography From The Revolution To First World War, by Graham Robb
- Landmarks, by Robert MacFarlane (about dialect terms for very specific geography throughout the UK)
- The Revenge of Geography, What the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate, by Robert D. Kaplan
- Jerusalem, by Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Palmento: A Sicilian Wine Odyssey, by Robert V. Camuto
- Barcelona, by Robert Hughes
- The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans, by Lawrence N. Powell
Scholarly texts:
- Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World Economy, by Mike Davis
- The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy, Princeton University Press by Kenneth Pomerantz
Archaeology non-fiction:
- Mesopotamia, The Invention of the City, by Gwendolyn Leick
- Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization, by Paul Kriwaczek
- Britain Begins (very dry and factual) Barry Cunliffe