The salty pleasures of the doorstopper history of an ocean
A Human History of the Mediterranean; By Davide Abulafia; Oxford University Press; 816 pp., $68.00 If you read the better class of these ocean books, you might soon find yourself convinced of the ...
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Turkestan or Iranzamin: the clash over the cultural roots of Central Asia
Istanbul presses for the strengthening of the ‘Turkic world’, rejecting ‘Eurocentric’ descriptions of the region. But Tajik ...
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Remembering Armistice Day in Europe: Liberty should be cherished and defended
Many European leaders have marked the end 106 years ago of World War I with warnings that liberty should be cherished and defended as armed conflict has returned to the continent ...