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ALAMY

CONTENTS Features

✪ On the

cover

COVER ILLUSTRATION

BY DAVIDE BONAZZI

The ‘Triangular

Trade’ routes

between Europe,

Africa and North

America, which

developed from the

17th century. This

issue, we explore

how understanding

of trade winds drove

European expansion

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Disability after the

First World War

BY MARTINA SALVANTE

Eight million people were disabled during

the 1914–18 conflict. What happened next

for those injured veterans?

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Historic cities through

travellers’ eyes ✪

BY PETER FURTADO

Embark on a tour through the past of some

of history’s mightiest capitals, from Athens

and Havana to Samarkand and Timbuktu

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Flight across the Pyrenees ✪

BY MATT CARR

Trace the perilous mountain crossings under-

taken by Jewish people evading capture by

the Nazis during the Second World War

THE BIG QUESTION

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Has China always been

the greatest superpower? ✪

Experts discuss how war, diplomacy and

trade won (and lost) power for the nation

PERSPECTIVES

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The First Opium War ✪

BY STEPHEN PLATT

The roots and aftermath of the 1838 conflict

that led to imperial China’s downfall

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Winds of change ✪

BY LEWIS DARTNELL

How the discovery of trade winds sparked

an era of European empire-building

China vs

the west:

special

features

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