World
The modern world cannot be studied without examining the course, impact and legacy of two world wars, the resources in this section set out to look at both the First and Second World Wars in their global context. The section also includes the Cold War and its impact in Latin America, South-East Asia and parts of Africa. This period also sees the rise and fall of European imperialism and the changing nature of global politics and economics as technology brings different stories from so many parts of the world directly to us. Read more
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The Spanish-American War revisited: rise of an American empire?
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The Story of the African Queen
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The Story of the First War in The Middle East over Oil
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The Sykes-Picot agreement and lines in the sand
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The Undergrowth of History
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The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
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The Uses of History in the Twenty First Century
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The Versailles Peace Settlement
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The Victorian Age
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The cultural biography of opium in China
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The great British postwar exodus
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The origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
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The shortest war in history: The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896
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The world in 1913: friendly societies
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Volunteers to a man: an industrial workplace goes to war
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WWI and the flu pandemic
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War Plan Red: the American Plan for war with Britain
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Webinar series: The Olympic Games
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Western Dress and Ambivalence in the South Pacific
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What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the British Empire and the age of revolutions in the global South
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