A veritable cornucopia1 of new history books out last month, with no fewer than 18 new titles identified from my exhaustive scraping of the internet. Here are a few that I have my eye on with two of them actually on my shelf already:
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How England Began: From Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxons, by Nicholas J. Higham. I know the dark ages are not supposed to be dark, but surely this bit of the dark ages is genuinely shadowy. It is a gap in my knowledge anyway.
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Seven Sisters: Captives and Rebels in Revolutionary Europe's First Family, by Veronica Buckley. "Let others wage war: thou, happy Austria, marry" (Bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube). While it was a happy policy for the Hapsburgs it didn't always work out too well for the ladies entering into those marriages...
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The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict and Warnings from History, by Odd Arne Westad. I am already half-way through this short and urgent book, which looks at the parallels between today's world and the world immediately before 1914 and the First World War. There are enough similarities for the author to sound the alarm.
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:
- π A History of France in 21 Women
- π A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow
- π A Woman's Work: A History of Motherhood
- π Echoes of Ash: Life in Herculaneum
- π Europe: A New History
- π How England Began: From Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxons
- π Nuclear Weapons: An International History
- π Rasputin: And the Downfall of the Romanovs
- π Seven Sisters: Captives and Rebels in Revolutionary Europe's First Family
- π Sir Walter Raleigh: A New History
- π The African Kingdom of Gold: Britain and the Asante Treasure
- π The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict and Warnings from History
- π The Edge of Revolution: The General Strike That Shook Britain
- π The First Ghetto: Venice and the Jews
- π The Idea of China: A Contested History
- π The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History
- π The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World
- π Venice and the Mongols: The Eurasian Exchange That Transformed the Medieval World
I'm not sure why but most cornucopias seem to be veritable β©οΈ
