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Sacred Foundations - review
Posted on: 29 January 2024
What are the origins of the modern European state? It’s not a question I have given a great deal of thought to up to now, but the author’s very useful explanation of prevailing theories in this field...
★★★★☆ (2023)
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A history of the universe - mapping the past
Posted on: 19 January 2024
History means looking back at the past. But the past is long and deep. You can easily find yourself adrift as you reach back through the aeons. This timeline will provide you with a map. Everything...
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Best history books of all time (reviewed by us)
Posted on: 2 January 2024
These are the best popular history books that we have read and reviewed on this site, each one receiving a coveted 5x⭐ rating. Bear in mind we probably review about 5% of all popular history books...
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New history books in December 2023
Posted on: 1 January 2024
Not so many history books in December, I guess because most of the publishing was done in November or earlier to meet Christmas demand... but quantity is no guide to quality of course, and there is...
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Cuba - review
Posted on: 22 December 2023
Without Cuba, there might not have been a United States. In 1781, readying themselves for what would turn out to be the climactic battle in the (North) American War of Independence, Ada Ferrer in...
★★★★★ (2021)
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Red Memory - review
Posted on: 8 December 2023
They f*ck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. ~ But they were f*cked up in their turn By fools in...
★★★★☆ (2023)
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New history books in November 2023
Posted on: 1 December 2023
Fourteen books published in November that meet my exacting criteria (of being history, not too academic, and not too niche or military). It looks like a fairly traditional range of topics: Weimar...
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Charged - review
Posted on: 17 November 2023
The history of an electric car battery begins with one of the biggest mass extinction events in the history of the plant. I’m talking of course about the Permian-Triassic mass extinction 250 million...
★★★★☆ (2022)
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Assyria - review
Posted on: 10 November 2023
What have the Assyrians ever done for us? In Assyria: the Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire Eckart Frahm explains that: they established a template for domination that has been used ever...
★★★★☆ (2023)
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New history books in October 2023
Posted on: 1 November 2023
Fewer history books than normal were published in October - maybe it is a bit of a lull before the Christmas releases? But still nine to choose from, and most of them the product of years of hard...
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The Middle Kingdoms - review
Posted on: 27 October 2023
I admit that I bought this book without too much research about what it was about: from the picture on the front cover and title I got the vague idea that I was buying something on German medieval...
★★★★☆ (2023)
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The Age of Atlantic Revolution - review
Posted on: 13 October 2023
It's history is the creation of a world. Simone de Beauvoir, America Day by Day. In Colombia the first song I learnt on my battered travelling guitar was “Soy Colombiano” (“I am Colombian”)...
★★☆☆☆ (2023)
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