HOW WIND POWERED EUROPE’S EMPIRES

World Histor ie s

China vs the west Is Europe and America’s dominance just a blip?

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BEHIND THE TRADE WAR The roots of today’s US-China faceoff DEATH BY OPIUM The drug that led to imperial China’s downfall TIANANMEN SQUARE Why 1989’s protests have been erased from history

ISSUE 17 AUGUST/SEPT 2019

How Jews fled the Nazis across the Pyrenees What Afro hair reveals about colonial tensions Simón Bolívar’s epic campaign to free Colombia From Baghdad to Havana: life in history’s great cities