I didn't manage to grub up so many new history books from last month, but as ever there is more than enough to keep you reading! The three books I particularly liked the look of are:
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Rhyme and Reason: A Short History of British Poetry, by Mark Forsyth. I am a big fan of history of course. I am also a big fan of poetry, even though I never actually read any (except the ones on the London underground). Anyway this book looks like a great way to kill two birds with one stone.
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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery, by Siddharth Kara. I have heard of this horrific case many times but have never read about it in any detail, this looks like the opportunity to do just that.
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Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State, by Mahmood Mamdani. The first history book I have added to the database on Uganda. I suspect the story told here will not be a happy one unfortunately.
Click the book covers to see a zoomed in image and links to Amazon if you like to buy your books there.
The full list:
- ๐ Daring to Be Free: Resistance and Rebellion in the Atlantic Slave World
- ๐ Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State
- ๐ The Two Hundred Years War: The Bloody Crowns of England and France, 1292-1492
- ๐ The Book of Kells: Unlocking the Enigma
- ๐ Rhyme and Reason: A Short History of British Poetry
- ๐ The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England
- ๐ Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
- ๐ The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
- ๐ The Fateful Hour: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic
Reporting back from last month on the lack of word in the English language to convey the concept of 'a particular place at a particular time': I had thought that 'zeitpunkt' would be a good bet not least because it sounded quite cool. However my ex-German-translator sister tells me that this doesn't really carry any association with a point in space (just time), so that doesn't work so well. I am now leaning towards the word 'topochron' to do the job. I coined this word with the help of a conversation with google gemini, after rejecting chronotope as a word already in circulation.
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