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History
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The Fall That Wasn’t: Rethinking the End of Rome
The fall of Rome is one of the most familiar stories in Western history, and one of the most misleading. In the popular imagination it arrives as a single catastrophe: barbarian hordes.
Cold War Logic: How Two Powers Learned to Fear Each Other
For roughly four decades, the two most powerful states the world had ever seen pointed enough explosive force at each other to end civilisation several times over, and yet never fought a.
The Ottoman Century: An Empire at Its Height
For a stretch of the sixteenth century, the most powerful state in the Mediterranean world was governed not from Madrid, Paris, or Vienna but from a city on the Bosphorus that bridged.
Total War: How the Second World War Remade the Century
Some events are large enough that the world before and after them seem to belong to different histories. The Second World War is the clearest modern example. It killed tens of millions,.
Who Owns the Past? History, Memory, and the Politics of Remembering
History, we like to imagine, is simply what happened — a fixed record awaiting discovery. But anyone who has watched two nations commemorate the same war, or two families recall the same.