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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

Buccaneers, Women Traders and Mock Kingdoms in Eighteenth Century Madagascar

2023 || Hardcover || David Graeber || Veltman Distributie Import Books

'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav Ghosh

The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. This was the Golden Age of Piracy, a period of violent buccanee...

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Normal Women

900 Years of Making History

2023 || Paperback || Philippa Gregory || Veltman Distributie Import Books

One of our foremost historical novelists, Philippa Gregory, makes history.

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Femina

The instant Sunday Times bestseller - A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

2023 || Paperback || Janina Ramirez || Veltman Distributie Import Books

'Janina Ramirez is a born storyteller, and in Femina she is at the peak of her powers. This is bravura narrative history underpinned by passionate advocacy for the women whom medieval history has too often ignored or overlooked. Femina is essential reading' - Dan Jones, bestselling author of The Plantagenets and Powers and Thrones

'I am the fiery life of divine substance, I blaze above the beauty of the fields, I shine in the waters, I burn in sun, moon and stars' - Hildegard of Bingen (1098 ...

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The Race to the Future

The Adventure that Accelerated the Twentieth Century

2023 || Paperback || Kassia St Clair || Veltman Distributie Import Books

10 June 1907, Peking. Five cars set off in a desperate race across two continents on the verge of revolution.

An Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a conman and various journalists battle over steep mountain ranges and across the arid vastness of the Gobi Desert. The contestants need teams of helpers to drag their primitive cars up narrow gorges, lift them over rough terrain and float them across rivers. Petrol is almost impossible to find, there are barely any roads, a...

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Blood on the Snow

The Russian Revolution 1914-1924

2023 || Hardcover || Robert Service || Veltman Distributie Import Books

The great historian of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russia returns with an enthralling revisionist history of the Russian Revolution.

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The West

A New History of an Old Idea

2023 || Paperback || Naoise Mac Sweeney || Veltman Distributie Import Books

'Awe-inspiring' Dr Janina Ramirez

'A book to savour' Sir Lawrence Freedman

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A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives.

We tend to imagine Western Civilisation as a golden thread, leading through the centuries from classical antiquity to the countries of the modern West - a cultural genealogy that connects Plato to NATO. It is an idea often invoked in the speeches of politicians and the rh...

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The Story of Russia

'An excellent short study'

2023 || Paperback || Orlando Figes || Veltman Distributie Import Books

A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History

'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM

'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian scholarship' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE

'A great historian at the peak of his powers' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE

'[An] excellent short study' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES

'If you really want to understand Putin'...

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The Savage Storm

The Battle for Italy 1943

2023 || Paperback || James Holland || Veltman Distributie Import Books

'Impeccably researched and superbly written' Observer

'Holland has something new to say.... Filled with insight and detail' Neil Oliver

'James Holland is the best of the new generation of WW2 historians' Sebastian Faulks

With the invasion of France the following year taking shape, and hot on the heels of victory in Sicily, the Allies crossed into Southern Italy in September 1943. They expected to drive the Axis forces north and be in Rome by Christmas. And although Italy surrendered, the Germ...

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Horizons

A Global History of Science

2023 || Paperback || James Poskett || Veltman Distributie Import Books

'Superb' Sunday Times

'Revolutionary' Alice Roberts

'Hugely important' Jim Al-Khalili

A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from history

In this major retelling of the history of science from 1450 to the present day, James Poskett explodes the myth that science began in Europe.

The blinkered Western gaze focusing on individual 'genius' - Copernicus, Newton, Darwin, Einstein - was only one part of the story. The reality was an utterly global, non-...

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Witchcraft

A History in Thirteen Trials

2023 || Paperback || Marion Gibson || Veltman Distributie Import Books

A lively and immersive global history of witchcraft which shows its evolution from the Middle Ages to the present day and shines a light on the stories of the victims, told in thirteen trials.