From the April 2021 Issue After Genghis The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World By Marie Favereau LR
From the March 2019 Issue Before the Islands Disappear Again Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago By Philip Bowring LR
From the May 2016 Issue Making a Bang The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History By Tonio Andrade LR
From the August 2015 Issue Our Father in Mongolia Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World By Frank McLynn LR
From the August 2014 Issue Bird’s-Eye View The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century By Jürgen Osterhammel (Translated by Patrick Camiller) LR
From the September 2011 Issue Trading Places 1493: How Europe’s Discovery of the Americas Revolutionized Trade, Ecology and Life on Earth By Charles C Mann LR
From the March 2010 Issue Cancel the Dragon-Boat Races! 1492: The Year Our World Began By Felipe Fernández-Armesto LR
From the February 2009 Issue Mongols at Sea Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet: History’s Greatest Naval Disaster By James Delgado LR
From the September 2008 Issue Sapient Sinophile Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China By Simon Winchester LR
From the March 2012 Issue Made in Taiwan Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China’s First Great Victory over the West By Tonio Andrade LR
From the May 2012 Issue Raise the Holy Sail Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem By Carol Delaney The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama By Nigel Cliff LR
From the July 2013 Issue And Now for News of Fresh Disaster Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century By Geoffrey Parker LR
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