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Issue 9

Articles from Issue 9 (April/May 2018) of BBC World Histories Magazine

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi
General Modern

Did the Age of Exploration bring more harm than good?

James Cook, commander of HMS 'Endeavour', meets Tahitians in an 18th-century engravings. The ship's naturalist Joseph Banks declared the Polynesian island "the truest picture of an Arcadia". (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
Georgian

How the arrival of Europeans rocked the native cultures of Tahiti and Australia

A badge featuring American civil rights activist Martin Luther King
20th Century

The global legacy of Martin Luther King

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