Robin Blackburn

We Must Learn How The Modern World Was Made

The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440–1870

By Hugh Thomas

LR

February 2017 Issue

Saul David

Hearts of Darkness

Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa – 1830–1990

By Lawrence James

LR

September 2015 Issue

David Gelber

When Lisbon Ruled the Waves

Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire

By Roger Crowley

LR

October 2003 Issue

Allan Massie

Tartan Trade

Scotland's Empire

By T M Devine

LR

November 2003 Issue

Paul Johnson

Coffers and Cannibals

Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire

By Hugh Thomas

LR

February 2009 Issue

Raymond Seitz

E Pluribus Unum

America, Empire of Liberty: A New History

By David Reynolds

LR

August 2008 Issue

Kerry Brown

War & Peace

The City of Heavenly Tranquillity: Beijing in the History of China

By Jasper Becker

China: A History

By John Keay

LR

August 2008 Issue

Roger Crowley

Taking on the Turk

The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe

By Andrew Wheatcroft

LR

October 2008 Issue

Piers Brendon

The Fakir and the Bulldog

Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

By Arthur Herman

LR

June 2008 Issue

Frank McLynn

Spartans of the Plains

The Comanche Empire

By Pekka Hämäläinen

LR

November 2007 Issue

Saul David

Out of the Turmoil

Diamonds, Gold and War: The Making of South Africa

By Martin Meredith

LR

October 2007 Issue

Edward Norman

Conflict & Catholicism

Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970–2000

By R F Foster

Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789–2006

By Paul Bew

LR

October 2007 Issue

Saul David

Better Than The Romans

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997

By Piers Brendon

LR

August 2007 Issue

David Gilmour

Divided It Stands

Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire

By Alex von Tunzelmann

The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan

By Yasmin Khan

LR

August 2007 Issue

Peter Washington

Out of the Fog

Joseph Conrad: A Life

By Zdzislaw Najder

The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad

By John Stape

LR

July 2012 Issue

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