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Book reviews: Trade and industry

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Why Nations Fail

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Masters of the Post: The Authorized History of the Royal Mail

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The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery

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Britain, Ireland, and Continental Europe in the Eighteenth Century

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Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World

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Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves: How the Victorians Collected the World

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The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire and War

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The Slave Trade

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Second World War

Cry Havoc: The Arms Race and the Second World War 1931–1941

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The Birth of Modern Britain: A Journey into Britain’s Archaeological Past, 1550 to the Present

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The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

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Children of Light: How Electricity Changed Britain Forever

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Money in Classical Antiquity

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Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft

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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City