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China After Mao
The Rise of a Superpower
2024 || Paperback || Frank Dikotter || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times
'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan
*A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR*
How did the People's Republic of China transform from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today? Drawing on hundreds of previously unseen archival documents, award-winning historian Frank Dikötter recasts our understanding of an era that both the regime and foreign admirers alike celebrate as an economic miracle. In a fascinating tale spanning f...
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Utopia for Realists
And How We Can Get There
2024 || Paperback || Rutger Bregman || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Listen out for Rutger Bregman. He has a big future shaping the future' Observer
'A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell' New York Times
'The Dutch wunderkind of new ideas' Guardian
In Utopia for Realists, Rutger Bregman shows that we can construct a society with visionary ideas that are, in fact, wholly implementable. Every milestone of civilisation - from the end of slavery to the beginning of democracy - was once considered a utopian fantasy. New utopian id...
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Straits
Beyond the Myth of Magellan
2024 || Paperback || USA) Felipe (University of Notre Dame Fernandez-Armesto || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2022
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022
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'Rigorous, deft and entertaining ... a sparkling read' - The Spectator
'The ride is thrilling ... a work of serious scholarship' - Sunday Telegraph
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For centuries, Ferdinand Magellan has been celebrated as a hero: a noble adventurer who circumnavigated the globe in an extraordinary feat of human bravery; a paragon of daring and chivalry.
Now historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto...
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A History of the Netherlands
From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day
2024 || Paperback || Germany) Friso (Westphalian Wilhelms-University Wielenga || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A History of Korea / 3rd edition
An Episodic Narrative
2024 || Paperback || Kyung Moon Hwang || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Emphasising context, connections and long-term trends, A History of Korea illuminates both the distinctiveness and universality of one of the world's oldest cultures. Assuming no prior knowledge, Hwang guides readers from early state formation and the dynastic eras to the modern experience in both North and South Korea. Structured around episodic accounts, each chapter begins by discussing a defining moment in Korean history in context, with an extensive examination of how the events and them...
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The Burgundians
A Vanished Empire
2024 || Paperback || Bart Van Loo || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The story of the Burgundian elite and its remarkable court and culture, a medieval and early modern epic of dynastic struggle, artistic achievement and eventual extinction.
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The Blazing World
A New History of Revolutionary England
2024 || Paperback || UK) Dr Jonathan (University of Oxford Healey || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Speak, Silence
In Search of W. G. Sebald
2024 || Paperback || Carole Angier || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Providence Lost
The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate
2024 || Paperback || Paul Lay || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The story of the rise and fall of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate (1653-9), England's sole experiment in republican government – and one of the most extraordinary but neglected periods in British history.
The Children of Athena
Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400
2024 || Paperback || Charles Freeman || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A compelling and fascinating portrait of the continuing intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome.
In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the general Lucius Cornelius Sulla destroyed the city of Socrates and Plato, laying waste to the famous Academy where Aristotle had studied. However, the traditions of Greek cultural life would continue to ...