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Europe and All That

How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History

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Better Dead Than Red

A Nasty Little War: The West’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution

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February 2024 Issue

Michael Taylor

The Long Road to Emancipation

The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776–1888

By Robin Blackburn

Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

By Hannah Durkin

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February 2024 Issue

Daniel Rey

Priests with Pick Axes

How the Spanish Empire was Built: A 400-Year History

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Daisy Dunn

Out of Attica

The Greeks: A Global History

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Nigel Andrew

What Will Survive of Us?

A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters

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Power to the Printers

The Gun, the Ship and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World

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Paul Kennedy

From Singapore to San Francisco

Unlocking the World: Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830–1930

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Philip Parker

The Silk Road & the Sandalwood Seas

The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the Globe – and Globalization Began

By Valerie Hansen

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November 2019 Issue

Patrick Wilcken

Creating Pax Xinguana

People of the Rainforest: The Villas Boas Brothers, Explorers and Humanitarians of the Amazon

By John Hemming

November 2019 Issue

Owen Matthews

Sultan on Speed Dial

Erdoğan Rising: The Battle for the Soul of Turkey

By Hannah Lucinda Smith

September 2019 Issue

Christian Goeschel

Portraits in Tyranny

How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century

By Frank Dikötter

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June 2019 Issue

Howard Davies

Financial Times

The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860–1914

By Donald Sassoon

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Richard Gott

Take it Rafting

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Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Ruling the Waves

Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World

By Andrew Lambert

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June 2018 Issue

Hugh Kennedy

Zealous Minds

Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War between the Muslim World and the Global North

By William R Polk

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February 2018 Issue

Donald Sassoon

Travels with My Encyclopedia

Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History

By Norman Davies

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September 2017 Issue

Christopher Andrew

The Big Chill

The Cold War: A World History

By Odd Arne Westad

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July 2017 Issue

Simon Heffer

Viral News

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

By Laura Spinney

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John Clay

Women At Sea

The Floating Brothel

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