by Aseem Gupta | Feb 2, 2016 | History, Empires & Civilizations
China is often described as a civilisation with five thousand years of continuous history. The phrase captures something real: an exceptionally long tradition of writing, political thought, historical memory and cultural inheritance. Yet it can also create a...
by Aseem Gupta | Feb 1, 2016 | History, Empires & Civilizations
Where does the history of the United States begin? It cannot begin in 1776, because the society that declared independence had already been shaped by more than a century of colonisation, slavery, religious conflict, imperial warfare and local self-government. It...
