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New history books in April 2022

by Anthony Webb, 1 May 2022

The April 2022 new history books round up!

A bit of a range on offer, from ancient to very modern and a decent geographical spread.

I'm going to try to find the time to read:

  • Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast, whose title says it all really. It sounds like a fascinating and in parts very harrowing story.
  • Also Persians: The Age of The Great Kings written from the Persian's point of view by a history professor who presumably knows his stuff.
  • And finally The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great defied a deadly virus which looks like an intriguing tale even it has clearly commandeered the COVID bandwagon.

Click the book covers to see a zoomed in image and links to Amazon.

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Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast
Northerners: a History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day
The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good, a History of London's Water
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
The Irish Difference: A Tumultuous History of Ireland’s Breakup With Britain
The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great defied a deadly virus
The Church of England: A History
The Emperors of Byzantium
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
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