IB DP history class
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
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Soviet control: Ukraine through the lens of history
Origins of industrialisation: How Africa made the modern world
Early modern states: Merchants by Edmond Smith — the profit motive that propelled an empire
Demography and destiny: Lousy demographics will not stop China’s rise
Historical method: Biographers — myth-busters or myth-keepers?
Causation: The lay of the land: how geography shapes national destiny
Perspectives: Stalin’s War by Sean McMeekin — alternative perspectives
Significance: Artist Sue Williamson explores South Africa’s painful history
Historical method: Truth and daring in retelling Mao’s China
Perspectives: River Kings — were the Vikings really violent?
Change: What pagans, Putin and the Volga teach us about Russia
Perspectives: Monumental struggle: the 20-year campaign for a slavery memorial in London
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