Archaeologist and author
Neil Price is an English archaeologist and professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, specialising in the Viking Age and pre-Christian religions of Scandinavia. He is the author of Children of Ash and Elm and The Viking Way, both widely regarded as essential works of Viking scholarship.
by Neil Price
Price draws on three decades of archaeology and recent DNA analysis to reconstruct the Viking world on its own terms, from cosmology and gender to trade networks stretching from Newfoundland to Uzbekistan. He argues the Vikings were not just raiders but a sophisticated, cosmopolitan civilization whose diaspora knit together a medieval Eurasia far more connected than the stereotype suggests.
The books Neil Price references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Jared Diamond
Diamond argues that geography, not racial superiority, explains why some civilizations dominated others. Differences in domesticable plants, animals, and continental axes gave certain societies an insurmountable head start.
by Yuval Noah Harari
Harari traces how Homo sapiens conquered the planet not through physical strength but through shared fictions, money, religion, nations. These collective myths let strangers cooperate at scales no other species can match.
by Will Durant
The Durants compress five thousand years of civilisation into sharp observations on recurring patterns in politics, morality, and economics. Human nature ensures history rhymes.
by Jared Diamond
Diamond investigates why some societies collapse while others endure, tracing destruction to environmental damage and failed group decision-making. The past warns the present.
Who Neil draws from, and who draws from Neil — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.