Bloomsbury Press imprint: 136 books
Milton
Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
John Milton (1608-1674) is best known as the author of the masterful epic retelling of fall of man, Paradise Lost. But he was more than just the 17th century voice of Satan. Wise and witty scholar Anna Beer traces his literary roots to a youthful passion for ancient verse, especially Ovid. She also...
Buckley
William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
"This is an insightful book that will please anyone interested in midcentury American history and politics. Anyone serious about political philosophy will learn from it. Highly recommended.†? -Library Journal (starred review)
William F. Buckley Jr. was the foremost architect of the conservative...
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Winner of the California Book Award
A searching portrait of an iconic figure long shrouded in myth by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of an acclaimed history of Chavez's movement.
Cesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched...
Mr. Churchill's Profession
The Statesman as Author and the Book That Defined the "Special Relationship"
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
In 1953, Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize-for Literature. In fact, Churchill was a professional writer before he was a politician, and published a stream of books and articles over the course of two intertwined careers. Now historian Peter Clarke traces the writing of the magisterial work...
Jefferson and Hamilton
The Rivalry That Forged a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A spellbinding history of the epic rivalry that shaped our republic: Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and their competing visions for America.
From the award-winning author of Almost a Miracle and The Ascent of George Washington, this is the rare work of scholarship that offers us irresistible...
Young Mr. Obama
Chicago and the Making of a Black President
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Barack Obama's inspirational politics and personal mythology have overshadowed his fascinating history. Young Mr. Obama gives us the missing chapter: the portrait of the politician as a young leader, often too ambitious for his own good, but still equipped with a rare ability to inspire change. The...
Killers of the King
The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
On August 18, 1648, with no relief from the siege in sight, the royalist garrison holding Colchester Castle surrendered and Oliver Cromwell's army firmly ended the rule of Charles I of England. To send a clear message to the fallen monarch, the rebels executed four of the senior officers captured...
The Watchers
A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
In a Europe aflame with wars of religion and dynastic conflicts, Elizabeth I came to the throne of a realm encircled by menace. To the great Catholic powers of France and Spain, England was a heretic pariah state, a canker to be cut away for the health of the greater body of Christendom. Elizabeth's...
Jacobites
A New History of the '45 Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The dramatic story of Bonnie Prince Charlie and his quixotic attempt to regain the throne of England.
The Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-46 is one of the most important turning points in British history--in terms of national crisis every bit the equal of 1066 and 1940. The tale of Charles Edward...
Bad Samaritans
The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
"Lucid, deeply informed, and enlivened with striking illustrations." -Noam Chomsky
One economist has called Ha-Joon Chang "the most exciting thinker our profession has turned out in the past fifteen years." With Bad Samaritans, this provocative scholar bursts into the debate...
Junkyard Planet
Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
How can garbage turn into gold? What does recycling have to do with globalization? Where does all that stuff we throw away go, anyway?
When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that...
by Ha-Joon Chang
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
From the internationally bestselling author and prizewinning economist--a highly original guide to the global economy.
In his bestselling 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism,Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang brilliantly debunked many of the predominant myths of neoclassical economics....
Welcome to the Urban Revolution
How Cities Are Changing the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The revolutions that have taken place around the world during the last fifty years-the ousting of Marcos and the Shah of Iran; the fall of communist regimes in Eastern Europe; the end of Apartheid in South Africa and, indeed, the civil rights revolution in America-were fundamentally urban revolutions....
The Great Divergence
America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal. This steady growing apart is often mentioned as a troubling indicator by scholars and policy analysts, though seldom addressed by politicians. What economics Nobelist Paul...