BBC World Histories - 08.2019 - 09.2019

How Jews fled the Nazis across the Pyrenees What Afro hair reveals about colonial tensions Simón Bolívar’s epic campaign to free ...

Sylvia’s friends remembered her for her kind heart, and her strong desire to help others. Even though she suffered lifelong poor ...

A nation blossoms A 17th-century woodblock print by Ten Bamboo Studio, a publishing house set up by Chinese printmaker Hu Zhengy ...

COVER ILLUSTRATION: DAVIDE BONAZZI–SALZMANART. THIS PAGE: ALAMY/STEVE SAYERS–THE SECRET STUDIO 3 China’s growing power has made ...

4 ALAMY CONTENTS Features ✪ On the cover COVER ILLUSTRATION BY DAVIDE BONAZZI The ‘Triangular Trade’ routes between Europe, Afri ...

5 FRAN MONKS/CATHERINE FRAWLEY THE BRIEFING 6 Viewpoints: Rana Mitter on historic trade rifts between China and the west ✪, and ...

6 View- points Expert opinions on historical issues that touch today’s world or nearly 100 years, from the mid-19th to the mid-2 ...

7 Æ ILLUSTRATION BY KATE HAZELL changes that came with Nixon’s visit in 1972, though more extensive informal links did commence ...

8 Back down to Earth As America celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, it still struggles with the pres ...

9 exclusive club that it had been in the 1960s: Japan, China and Europe were now all increasingly assertive presences on what th ...

10 THE BRIEFING History Headlines EDINBURGH SCOTLAND Missing piece of history A chess piece tucked away for years in a drawer in ...

ISRAEL Strange brew Researchers in Israel have brewed an ‘ancient’ beer using yeast up to 5,000 years old. Six strains of yeast ...

12 China’s Communist Party leaders want their people to help build a “beautiful, democratic” society. I know, because I’ve seen ...

13 The photo of a man blocking a column of tanks is the iconic image of those few tumultuous days – in the west, at least. In Ch ...

(^14) ILLUSTRATION BY DAVIDE BONAZZI ИЗП ОДГ ОТО ВИЛ АГР УПП А "What's News" VK.COM/WSNWS 14 VK.COM/WSNWS 14 ...

15 The economic and political reach of the world’s most populous country is expanding at a breathtaking rate – but has China exp ...

16 Was China ever a superpower? If you asked many Chinese people, they might say that the Tang dynasty (618–907) would qualify. ...

17 AKG IMAGES/BRIDGEMAN Æ James Millward is professor of inter-societal history at Georgetown University, Washington DC. His boo ...

18 What makes any nation a global superpower? Military might? Political authority? Territorial expansion? In various forms and a ...

19 China under current president Xi Jinping is a global superpower. With the world’s second-largest economy, a permanent seat in ...