2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Will Storr's account of the rise of extreme individualism and self-obsession in the West — tracing its roots from ancient Greece through the human potential movement to social media.
Amanda Podany's 2022 social history of the ancient Near East — covering 3500–500 BC — focusing on ordinary people (weavers, scribes, merchants, farmers) rather than kings, using cuneiform archive evidence.