Charles Morris

A beautifully-written cultural history of the Indo-European peoples. The author, a classical scholar, defines “Aryan” as a “linguistic race” spanning the areas occupied by the great Indo-European invasion, reaching from India to Ireland, and proceeds to analyze all aspects of the cultures across this vast region. Along the way, he proves that the broad family of Indo-European language speakers had a common origin at some distant point in the past. It includes an overview of the development of ancient Indo-European households, farming arrangements, legal systems, culture, religion, language and political development.