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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (30)
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Crusaders
An Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
2024 || Paperback || Dan Jones || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A history of the Crusades.
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Money For Nothing
The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism
2024 || Paperback || Thomas Levenson || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of 1720 – and paradoxically led to the birth of modern finance.
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Alexander Hamilton
2024 || Paperback || Ron Chernow || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The biography of one of America's founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton, which became the basis for the hugely successful Broadway show Hamilton.
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The Templars
The Rise and Fall of God´s Holy Warriors
2024 || Paperback || Dan Jones || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The remarkable story of the Knights Templar – the wealthiest, most powerful and most secretive of the military orders that flourished in the crusading era.
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A Spectre, Haunting
On the Communist Manifesto
2024 || Paperback || China Mieville || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
China Miéville's reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document: the Communist Manifesto.
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Come to This Court and Cry
Secrets and Survival at the Last Nazi Trials
2024 || Paperback || Linda Kinstler || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A TABLET AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR
Shortlisted for the Wingate Literary Prize
'A tremendous feat of storytelling, propelled by numerous twists and revelations, yet anchored by a deep moral seriousness . . . Enthralling' Guardian
Across the world the last Nazi trials are winding their way through the courts. Nearly a century on from the Holocaust, survivors are still asked to give proof - and, in an era of rising revisionism and denialism, have their stories questioned. In this ...
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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