This seems to be a month of big ideas, judging by the new history books released last month (in the UK, hardback). Many are spanning the whole of human history, all over the world. There are a few different angles: childbirth, rivers (x2), the economic force of women, sensory experience. Also a couple on "big men" of history, including two of the biggest: Winston Churchill and de Gaulle.
Anyway, here are three that I may delve into more deeply, time permitting...
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Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-Creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations, by Sam Kean. [comment]
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Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History, by Vanessa Taylor. [comment]
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Domination: The fall of the Roman empire and the rise of Christianity, by Alice Roberts. [comment]
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 Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-Creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
- ๐ Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History
- ๐ Cultures of the Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem: Frontier Inventiveness in the Age of the Crusades
- ๐ Domination: The fall of the Roman empire and the rise of Christianity
- ๐ Artists of History: Churchill and de Gaulle - the Last Titans
- ๐ King of Kings: The Fall of the Shah, the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Unmaking of the Modern Middle East
- ๐ The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of James VI and I
- ๐ Carthage: A new history of an ancient empire
- ๐ Three Rivers: The Hidden Histories of the Waterways That Made Europe
- ๐ Central Europe: The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea
- ๐ Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power
- ๐ Born: A History of Childbirth
