Jane Bassett’s critique of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow, published in a recent issue of this journal, is very welcome, and I agree with her basic conclusions.1 However, I would… Continue Reading
A review of The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule, Angela Saini (Harper Collins, 2023), £20 Unsurprisingly, Angela Saini’s latest book has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from people who want to challenge sexism and who recognise the destructive global impact… Continue Reading
“Be sure to send me the equivalent of my cloth in silver so that I can buy barley.” A woman in Assur to her husband in a distant trading colony, about 1900 BCE. “You are perpetually pressing oil, grinding barley,… Continue Reading