ACADEMIC HISTORY
(Carolyne Larrington, Times Literary Supplement) exploration of medieval thinking about women’s beauty, sexuality and behaviour.
Egg: A Dozen Ovatures Lizzie Stark 12th April, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781324074472 Informative and unconventional history of the world’s largest cellular workhorse. Filled with colourful characters and fascinating morsels, Egg guarantees that readers will never take this delicate ovoid for granted again.
Black Snow James M Scott 10th May, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781324074601 The unprecedented fire raid that incinerated Tokyo, helped win the war and marked a major shift in American military policy.
American Inheritance Edward J Larson 22nd March, pb, eb, £13.99, 9781324075219 From a Pulitzer Prize winner a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in a nation’s founding.
The Wandering Mind Jamie Kreiner 9th February, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781324094449 Revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later.
Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan Nile Green 2nd July, hb, eb, £22, 9781324002413 A rollicking story of two literary fabulists who revealed the West’s obsession with a fabricated, exotic East.
Yale University Press
The Gulag Doctors Dan Healey 27th February, hb, eb, £30, 9780300187137 Pioneering history of medical care in Stalin’s Gulag reveals how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions.
The Yemen Model Alexandra Stark 23rd April, hb, eb, £25, 9780300259841 Close look at failed US
policies in the Middle East offers a fresh perspective on how best to reorient goals in the region.
Battleground Christopher Phillips 27th February, hb, eb, £18.99, 9780300263428 Essential guide to
geopolitics in the modern Middle East in the aftermath of the Arab Spring.
How to Lose a War Amin Saikal 11th June, hb, eb, £18.99, 9780300266245 Incisive, authoritative account of the West’s failures in Afghanistan, from 9/11 to the fall of Kabul.
The Belt and Road City Simon Curtis, Ian Klaus 14th May, hb, eb, £25, 9780300266900 An exploration of how China’s Belt and Road Initiative seeks to reshape international order and has catalysed a new era of infrastructural geopolitics.
Spice Roger Crowley 9th April, hb, eb, £20, 9780300267471 The story of the 16th century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific.
Psychonauts Mike Jay 27th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780300276091 Provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind.
Ignorance: A Global History Peter Burke 9th April, pb, eb, £11.99, 9780300276503 Rich, wide-ranging narrative of ignorance in all its forms from antiquity to the present day.
The Ukrainian Night Marci Shore 23rd April, pb, £14.99, 9780300276831 Vivid account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential.
Academic History
presidency, which examines his ideologies and key policies to debunk myths about his leadership in the White House.
Anthem Press
Robert Franklin Williams Speaks Ronald J Stephens (ed) 5th March, hb, eb, £80, 9781839984570 Represents the only full- length volume that includes key documents (ie, speeches, letters, inter- views and testimonials) by and about Williams in a single volume.
Atlantic Books
The Capitalist Manifesto Johan Norberg 4th July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781838957926 Vital exploration of capitalism and the benefits it brings to global society as a whole.
Bloomsbury Academic
A Short History of the Weimar Republic Colin Storer 2nd May, pb, eb,
£14.99, 9781350172364 Accessible and introductory overview. Revised.
From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths Heather O’Donoghue 22nd February, 2nd edn, pb, eb, £21.99, 9781350252806 Angaging exploration of the history and legacy of Old Norse mythology.
The Holocaust Sites of Europe Martin Winstone 22nd February, 3rd edn, pb, eb, £24.99, 9781350332027 First comprehensive, historical guide to the major locations.
Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain Eithne Nightingale 8th February, pb, eb, £17.99, 9781350332607 Historically contextualised collection of interviews with refugees who arrived and settled in the UK as children from 1930 to the present day.
Jimmy Carter’s Presidency Robert K Green 18th April, pb, eb, £21.99, 9781350352902 Fresh interpretation of Carter’s troubled
Beowulf
Heather O’Donoghue 13th June, hb, eb, £20, 9781788312882 The story behind what makes Beowulf such a remarkable work of art and why it is of such cultural significance.
Bloomsbury
Bazball Lawrence Booth, Nick Hoult 4th July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781526672063 First book to lift the lid on the Bazball revolution and its impact on Test Cricket and England’s fortunes. Includes interviews with Brendan McCullum, Rob Key and Ben Stokes.
British Library
Magna Carta Claire Breay 16th May, pb, £9.99, 9780712355100 This book, the first in a new series, explores the roles of the protagonists involved in Magna Carta’s creation in 1215.
Edinburgh University Press
The British and the Turks: A History of Animosity, 1893-1923 Justin McCarthy 14th February, pb, eb, £29.99, 9781399500050 Analyses British pressure to partition and ultimately destroy the Ottoman Empire.
Italy and the Islamic World Ali Akhtar 31st March, pb, eb, £24.99, 9781399519625 Uncovers Italy’s 2,000- year history as a bridge between Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books Olly Akkerman 31st May, pb, eb, £24.99, 9781474479578 Tells the story of a manuscript repository found all over the pre-modern Muslim world.
Literary Neo-orientalism and the Arab Uprisings Julia Wurr 31st May, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781474488013 Analyses English, French and German-language fiction about the Arab Spring.
Dynastic Politics in the Age of Diocletian, AD 284-311 Byron Waldron 31st May, pb, eb, £24.99, 9781474498661 Examines the Tetrarchy as an experimental military dynasty.
The North Caucasus Borderland Murat Yasar 31st May, vol 10, pb, eb, £24.99, 9781474498708 Explores the first borderland between the Ottoman and Russian empires in the 16th century.
Everyday Life in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Mass Observation’s 12th May Diaries Nick Clarke (ed) 2nd May, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781350434691 Based on the 5,000 diaries collected by Mass Observation on 12 May, 2020, this is a rounded and democratic account of the pandemic as it was experienced in the UK.
The Dilemma of Authoritarian Local Governance in Egypt Hani Awad 14th February, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781399502542 Examines how the Egyptian authoritarian regime has upgraded its system of local governance since Nasser.
The President’s Kill List Luca Trenta 30th June, hb, eb, £85, 9781399519496 Explores the full spectrum of spying and secret warfare in a globalised world.
Eglantyne Books
Who Killed the King? Vol 3 Robert Temple 15th June, hb, £25, 9781913378127 Final volume of the masterly account of the trial and execution of King Charles I and the men who brought it about.
Hoover Institution Press
Japanese America on the Eve of the Pacific War Kaoru Ueda (ed), Eiichiro Azuma (ed) 1st February, pb, £29.95, 9780817926052 Offers the first English translation of Yasuo Sakata’s seminal essay, which argues that the 1930s constitutes a chronological and conceptual “missing link” between two predominant research interests.
John Donald
Picts, Gaels and Scots Sally M Foster 21st March, pb, £17.99, 9780859767224 Revised edition examines early historic Scotland, from the fifth to the 10th century AD.
Lynne Rienner
Disability, Nazi Euthanasia, and the Legacy of the Nuremberg Medical Trial Emmeline Burdett 15th February, hb, £79, 9781685852832 Burdett’s close reading of the trial transcript and her careful parsing of the legacy of Aktion T4 are the genesis of this revealing book.
A Critical History of Southern Rhodesia Gardner Thompson 15th February, hb, £83, 9781685859886 Fresh history of British rule in Southern Rhodesia, from the first colonial settlements in
Mashonaland in the 1890s to the establishment of the country’s sovereignty as Zimbabwe.
McFarland
Highlanders James MacKillop 29th February, pb, £39.95, 9781476693125 Discusses the landscape and language of the Highlanders, the rise of clans, feuds and invasions, and eventual emigration.
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