'This, I argue, is the beginning of the Age of Exploration, the Age of Discovery, and thereby, the start of the modern world.’ A new book by journalist and professor Howard French places Africa as the ...
The Killing Age. By Clifton Crais. University of Chicago Press; 664 pages; $39.50. Picador; 736 pages; £30 Like many planters in 18th-century Jamaica, Thomas Thistlewood grew rich by forcing other ...
For many people, Buddhism appears to be uniquely compatible with modern lifestyles and world views. It provides staunch atheists – those who do not believe in the existence of any god – with a ...
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