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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 ...
A Cold Spell
A Human History of Ice
2024 || Paperback || Max Leonard || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Taking us from the beginning of our story to the present day, A Cold Spell examines how ice has shaped our thoughts, actions and societies - and what it means for us that it is rapidly disappearing from our planet
'Bracingly original . . . As the earth warms threateningly, there could hardly be a more pertinent time for a story like this' MICHAEL PALIN
'A book of limitless fascinations' OLIVIA LAING
'Brightly written, nimbly researched and really quite delightful' LITERARY RE...
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Courting India
England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
2024 || Paperback || Nandini Das || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century.
'A triumph of writing and scholarship. It is hard to imagine anyone ever bettering Das's account of this part of the story' - William Dalrymple, Financial Times
'A fascinating glimpse of the origins of the British Empire . . . drawn in dazzling technicolour' - Spectator
'Beautifully written and masterfully researched,...
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The Rest is History
The official book from the makers of the hit podcast
2024 || Paperback || Goalhanger Podcasts e.a. || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys . . . There's a new history book in town. Pre-order your copy now.
From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past - from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook take on the most curious moments in history, answering the questions we didn't even think to ask:
- Did the Trojan War actuall...
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Powers and Thrones
A New History of the Middle Ages
2024 || Paperback || Dan Jones || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built.