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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
Georgian

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

A cable car on San Francisco's Hyde Street. The network, established in the 1870s,is an ideal way to explore the city (Stefano Politi Markovina / Getty Images)
Victorian

San Francisco: the history of the Golden City by the bay

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

The global legacy of Martin Luther King

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