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Frank Trentmann has high praise for an ambitious attempt to explain the vast discrepancies of global wealth
Jeremy Black delights in a thoughtful chronicle of the Royal Mail
Madge Dresser applauds an insightful study of a slave ship atrocity and its aftermath
Jeremy Black on how Georgian Britons interacted with their European neighbours
Jerry Brotton on a vivid tale of British traders in the orient
Felix Driver on a sympathetic portrayal of a group of Victorian collectors
James Walvin reviews an engaging exploration of the slave-based sugar islands in the West Indies
Roger Moorhouse on the race for military supremacy before the Second World War
Marilyn Palmer enjoys an archaeologist’s explorations of unfamiliar grounds