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A History of Modern Tourism
2015 || Paperback || Eric Zuelow || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, yet leisure travel is more than just economically important. It plays a vital role in defining who we are by helping to place us in space and time. In so doing, it has aesthetic, medical, political, cultural, and social implications.
However, it hasn't always been so. Tourism as we know it is a surprisingly modern thing, both a product of modernity and a force helping to shape it. A History of Modern Tourism is the first book to track the...
History of Philosophy Volume 1
Greece and Rome
2003 || Paperback || Frederick Copleston || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the last volume appearing in the mid-1970s) the series has become the classic account for all philosophy scholars and students. The 11-volume series gives an accessible account of each philosopher's work, but also explains their relationship to the work of other philosophers.
The Sun Rising
James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain
2025 || Hardcover || Professor Anna Whitelock || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A panoramic history of the arrival of the Stuarts, and how the reign of James I saw England reach new corners of the globe.
Norway's War
A People’s Struggle Against Nazi Tyranny, 1940–45
2025 || Hardcover || Robert Ferguson || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Vulture Capitalism
Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom
2025 || Paperback || Grace Blakeley || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
*A Foyles Top 10 Read for March and one of Glamour's Best Books of March*
Longlisted for the inaugural Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
'A galvanising takedown of neoliberalism's "free market" logic, one rooted in as much history as it is in current events' NAOMI KLEIN
'A must-read for anyone keen to put the demos back in democracy' YANIS VAROUFAKIS
Everything you know about capitalism is wrong.
Free markets aren't really free. Record corporate profits don't ...
Magna Carta
The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter
2024 || Hardcover || Dan Jones || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A beautifully produced account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one the most influential statements in the history of democracy.