The disdain for human life that underpinned the British Empire has been brought home.
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The search goliath has spent over $5bn on everything from driverless cars to smart contact lenses in the past three years. The UK tax hounds must be delighted.
The book contains major flaws, the chief of which is the lack of solid, supporting evidence. Brown claims that ‘Rhodes documented everything’ – which was not actually the case in this regard.
It can be difficult to imagine that the antiquities in our museums were once a part of vibrant and cosmopolitan cities. Let our expert take you on a tour of three cities to rival today’s global hubs.
The BBC’s chief contribution to the bicentenary has been to rename itself the Bonapartist Broadcasting Corporation.
Empire, a TV drama about a black hip-hop star turned music mogul, is breaking new ground by foregrounding ‘risky’ issues around race, sexuality and class.
In 1495 a horrific new disease appeared in Europe. Acquired by sexual contact and initially spread through Europe by mercenary soldiers from the army of King Charles VIII of France returning from a successful…
According to British historian Arnold Toynbee, “History is just one damned thing after another.” Or is it? That is the question Peter Turchin of the University of Connecticut in Storrs tries to answer…
Principales colaboradores
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Indian and Colonial History, University of Liverpool
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Professor, University of Glasgow
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Lecturer in Modern European History, Queen's University Belfast
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Senior Lecturer in History, La Trobe University
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Charles Warren Professor of History, Harvard University
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PhD researcher in the fields of Popular Culture and Postcolonialism, The University of Western Australia
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Reader in Evolutionary Ecology, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor in History, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer in Roman Archaeology and Art, Royal Holloway University of London
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Director, International Development Department, University of Birmingham
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Emeritus Professor, Rhodes University
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Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis
