civilization

Martin Puchner shows how culture survives through constant change and remix, from Egyptian monotheism to Charlemagne's font revolution.

A sweeping history showing how wood—not stone, metal, or fire—has been humanity's true partner in civilization, from primate evolution to timber skyscrapers.

William Dalrymple traces how India's ideas, aesthetics, and sciences traveled across the world—from Rome to China to Southeast Asia to Europe—through trade, faith, and scholarship.

by Josephine Quinn

Challenging the notion of pure Western civilization by showing global interconnections.

by James C. Scott

The interregnum between when agriculture started and states established themselves.

by Roland Ennos

How human civilization owes more to wood than to stone, metal, or fire.