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For David Cannadine, historians should look beyond the clash of religions, classes and civilisations to what unites us – but there are problems with an appeal to common humanity. Mark Mazower reviews ‘The Undivided Past’
Why were Britain’s imperial planners so determined to control the Mediterranean?
Washington tiptoes between democracy and empire, writes Mark Mazower
The real constant - political rather than financial - in modern Greek history is the extraordinary degree of foreign interference, writes Mark Mazower
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