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    2. Issue 9: April/May 2018

    Issue 9: April/May 2018

    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

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