A nice collection of books from last month (published in the UK in hardback) ranging across time and space. Three I am particularly attracted to are:
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The Black Death: A Global History, by Thomas Asbridge. ...or at least as global as the Black Death appears to have got in the mid 14th century: Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. I have read this already and will be posting a review soon. It's an epic recounting but also deeply grounded in the personal experiences of the time.
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The Scramble for America: How the United States Conquered a Continent, by Clement Knox. This is a story which I am vaguely aware of but would like to know the details better, particularly as the US seems to be pivoting to a more 19th century worldview.
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The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya, by David Stuart. Another expansive American culture(s?) but one from much longer ago... I've long been fascinated by Central American history so looking forward to reading this one.
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 The Nuremberg Women: At the Trial That Brought the Nazis to Justice
- ๐ Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
- ๐ The Lost Voices of Pompeii: The Final Day in Seven Lives
- ๐ The Black Death: A Global History
- ๐ Stalin's Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire
- ๐ Self-Help from the Middle Ages: A Journey Into the Medieval Mind
- ๐ Weimar Germany: Death of a Democracy
- ๐ The Scramble for America: How the United States Conquered a Continent
- ๐ Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece
- ๐ Offa: King of the Mercians
- ๐ Across Sicily with Garibaldi's Thousand: An Adventure in Landscape and Italian Memory
- ๐ Radicals: The Working Classes and the Making of Modern Britain
- ๐ Philosophy in the Reformation: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 8
- ๐ The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya
- ๐ The Roman World War: From the Ides of March to Cleopatraโs Suicide
