New History books in the Bodleian (week 28 Nov)

36 new books on British and Western European history  have now been added to LibraryThing.

There are books on Bayeux Tapestry, medieval Italy, Spain (Reyes Católicos) and France (Hugh of Amiens). Early modernists can read books on the history of sickness, German universities, biography of Portugal’s D Pedro II, law and government in the long 18th Century, French Revolution, etc. Modernists have more on the Risorgimento, Third Reich and the Holocaust, WWII in England, the GDR, Algerians in post-war France, etc.

Here are some more tasters:

The Liverpool Underworld: Crime in the City, 1750-1900L'aristocratie de l'épiderme : le combat de la Société des citoyens de couleur, 1789-1791La police parisienne et les Algériens, 1944-1962

 

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