Thursday, 17 November 2011

Longman-History Today Book of the Year Longlist

Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England, Thomas Penn (Allen Lane)

Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves: How the Victorians Collected the World, Jacqueline Yallop (Atlantic Books)

The Social Universe of the English Bible: Scripture, Society, and Culture in Early Modern England, Naomi Tadmor (Cambridge University Press)

The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England, Ethan H. Shagan (Cambridge University Press)

Children in the Roman Empire: Outsiders Within, Christian Laes (Cambridge University Press)

Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine, Brent D. Shaw (Cambridge University Press)

Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe, Craig Koslofsky (Cambridge University Press)

Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908-1918, Michael A. Reynolds (Cambridge University Press)

The Great Famine: Ireland's Agony 1845-1852, Ciaran O Murchadha (Continuum)

Mission to China: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit Encounter with the East, Mary Laven (Faber and Faber)

Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey, Rachel Hewitt (Granta Books)

Liberty's Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire, Maya Jasanoff (HarperPress)

The Castrato and His Wife, Helen Berry (Oxford University Press)

Being Soviet: Identity, Rumour, and Everyday Life under Stalin, Timothy Johnston (Oxford University Press)

Managing the Body: Beauty, Health, and Fitness in Britain 1880-1939, Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska (Oxford University Press)

Hitler's Foreign Executioners: Europe's Dirty Secret, Christopher Hale (The History Press)

Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War, John Stubbs (Viking)

The Unfinished Revolution: Making Sense of the Communist Past in Central-Eastern Europe, James Mark (Yale University Press)

Tibet: A History, Sam Van Schaik (Yale University Press)

Palmerston: A Biography, David Brown (Yale University Press)

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