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The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide by Howard W. French traces the line ...

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O n 20 June 1940, with the threat of large-scale enemy bombing looming ever closer and the Battle of Britain imminent, a ...

Chernobyl Children: A Transnational History of Nuclear Disaster by Melanie Arndt discovers how civil society flourished – and then faltered – in the fallout.

Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski is Professor of Polish-Lithuanian History at UCL and Principal Historian of the Polish History ...

Knell continuing his attack as before, so maliciously and furiously, and Towne … to save his life drew his sword of iron ...

The kings of medieval France were fascinated by the Mongols, who they saw as great empire builders. Eager to learn more, they ...

A literate slave was a must-have in wealthy ancient Roman households. Keen to capitalise on this taste for learning, masters and slaves alike turned education into profit.

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What makes a state? Is it its people, its borders, its government, or does it rest on recognition from international powers? Across the 19th and 20th centuries, the process by which states have been ...