
Books of the year 2022
History Extra podcast
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I'd Love to See More Books on the Roman Roads
I'd like to see more nitty gritty books about the engineering and the practical things in the ancient world, says Rianna. I would love to see somebody kind of quantitatively attack empires because it's so much you get so much from that kind of physical numerical look at things. These things illuminate things in a way that narrative can't. It's just worth reflecting from the conditions which, you know, your question is put obviously in the sense that Rianna is a commercial one.
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