Reviews

The creation of India’s fantastic rail network was the work of the British Raj, but it came at a high price for Indians themselves.

The story of Indonesia’s anti-Communist coup, the rise to power of a pro-western regime and its murderous aftermath.

From de Gaulle’s call to arms against Vichy France to Liberation four years later, we review The French Resistance by Olivier Wieviorka.

The reasons for the brevity of the Latin presence in the 12th-century Eastern Mediterranean.

Combining grand narrative with vignettes of private lives and long-forgotten events, the last 500 years of Jewish life are told by a consummate master of his craft.

Two fascinating, in-depth studies look, respectively, at representations of the Bard as a historical character and perceptions of his originality and reputation.

Josephine Quinn’s authoritative and engaging new study questions whether the Phoenicians had a homogeneous language or cultural heritage.

Despite the difficulties in accessing official archival sources, the history of homophobic persecution in Russia is covered convincingly in this study.