
12/15/2020
Books of the Year 2020 | History Today
'The Vikings may have been the first Europeans in America but Alan Mikhail’s God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World makes a persuasive case for the importance of the Ottoman empire for the colonial expansion to the Americas in the 16th century. Sultan Selim was moulded by a formidable mother whose ambitions propelled her son to immense power and her political savvy makes her quite as interesting as her son. "
Feature Books of the Year 2020 Six historians share the books they’ve enjoyed this year. History Today | Published in 10 Dec 2020 ‘A bold story of a society dramatically different from our own’ Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir, Author of Valkyrie: Women of the Viking World (Bloomsbury, 2020)....