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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Wonder That Was India: A Survey of the History and Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent before the coming of the Muslims
Arthur Llewellyn Basham · 572 pages
The Lost River: On The Trail of the Sarasvati
Michel Danino · 357 pages
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Victoria Finlay · 448 pages
A History of India, vol. 1: From Origins to 1300
Romila Thapar · 384 pages
The first volume traces the evolution of India before contact with modern Europe was established in the sixteenth century, highlighting the many manifestations of Indian culture as seen in religion, art and literature, in ideas and institutions. In volume two, emphasis is placed on the unity of texture in the development of Indian society.
A History of Warfare
John Keegan · 432 pages
In *A History of Warfare*, Keegan outlines the development and limitations of warfare from prehistory to the modern era. It looks at various topics, including the use of horses, logistics, and "fire". One key concept put forward is that war is inherently cultural. In the introduction, he rigorously denounces the idiom "war is a continuation of policy by other means", rejecting on its face "Clausew
A Short History of Progress
Ronald Wright · 211 pages
Palaeolithic hunters who learnt how to kill two mammoths instead of one had made progress. Those who learnt how to kill 200 by driving a whole herd over a cliff had made too much. Many of the great ruins that grace the deserts and jungles of the earth are monuments to progress traps, the headstones of civilisations which fell victim to their own success. The twentieth-century´s runaway growth has
The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant
John Dominic Crossan · 507 pages
Reveals the historical Jesus by combining peasant anthropology, ancient history, and textual analysis.
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
Riane Eisler · 261 pages
"In prehistorical times, Eisler argues, women and men lived together in egalitarian communities devoted to nurturance; with the imposition of male domination, female values gave way to creeds of hierarchy, aggression, power, obedience. Eisler, a futurist, posits a new society based on the recovery of more humane values."--Library journal (6/1/85).
A History of Religious Ideas 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries
Mircea Eliade · 489 pages
Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
Brian M. Fagan · 295 pages
After The Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 B.C.
Steven Mithen · 664 pages
"After the Ice is the story of a momentous period: one in which a seemingly minor alteration in temperature could bring anything from the spread of lush woodland to apocalyptic floods - and one that contains the origins of civilisation itself. For, by its close, dogs, sheep and cattle had been domesticated; rice, wheat and cotton were being harvested; and permanent villages and towns had sprung up
The Ancient Celts
Barry W. Cunliffe · 496 pages
Fierce warriors and skilled craftsmen, the Celts were famous throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World. They were the archetypal barbarians from the north and were feared by both Greeks and Romans. For two and a half thousand years they have continued to fascinate those who have come into contact with them, yet their origins have remained a mystery and even today are the subject of heated debate
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
Ramachandra Guha · 893 pages
Born in privation and civil war, divided by caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. This remarkable book tells the full story--the pain and the struggle, the humiliations and the glories--of the world's largest and least likely democracy. Social historian Guha writes of the protests and conflicts that have peppered the history of
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
William Dalrymple · 560 pages
On a dark evening in November 1862, a cheap coffin is buried in eerie silence. There are no lamentations or panegyrics, for the British Commissioner in charge has insisted, 'No vesting will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Mughals rests.' This Mughal is Bahadur Shah Zafar II, one of the most tolerant and likeable of his remarkable dynasty who found himself leader of a violent and
The Discovery of India
Jawaharlal Nehru · 582 pages
Walk into the world of India and its civilization as seen by Pandit jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of Independent India
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
Alex von Tunzelmann · 440 pages
"The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime minister-to-be; Gandhi, the mystical figure who enthralled a nation; and Louis and Edwina Mountbatten, the glamorous but unlikely couple who had been dispatched to
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · 456 pages
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What hap