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Utopia for Realists

And How We Can Get There

2024 || Paperback || Rutger Bregman || Bloomsbury Publishing

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 || Felipe (University of Notre Dame Fernandez-Armesto || Bloomsbury Publishing

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 || Friso (Westphalian Wilhelms-University Wielenga || Bloomsbury Publishing

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A History of Korea / 3rd edition

An Episodic Narrative

2024 || Paperback || Kyung Moon Hwang || Bloomsbury Publishing

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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History by Numbers

An Introduction to Quantitative Approaches

2016 || Paperback || Prof. Pat Hudson e.a. || Bloomsbury Publishing

Fully updated and carefully revised, this new 2nd edition of History by Numbers stands alone as the only textbook on quantitative methods suitable for students of history. Even the numerically challenged will find inspiration. Taking a problem-solving approach and using authentic historical data, it describes each method in turn, including its origin, purpose, usefulness and associated pitfalls.

The problems are developed gradually and with narrative skill, allowing readers to experience the ...

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The Burgundians

A Vanished Empire

2024 || Paperback || Bart Van Loo || Bloomsbury Publishing

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 || Dr Jonathan (University of Oxford Healey || Bloomsbury Publishing

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Speak, Silence

In Search of W. G. Sebald

2024 || Paperback || Carole Angier || Bloomsbury Publishing

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The Children of Athena

Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400

2024 || Paperback || Charles Freeman || Bloomsbury Publishing

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 ...

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Providence Lost

The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate

2024 || Paperback || Paul Lay || Bloomsbury Publishing

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.