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Authors: Niall Ferguson

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8. The culture of conformity: the Chinese civil service examination in the reign of the Jen Tsung Emperor

 

9. The victor of the spice race: Vasco da Gama’s tomb, monastery of St Jerome, Lisbon

 

10. Earl Macartney vainly seeks to arouse the Xianlong Emperor’s interest in Western civilization: a cartoon by James Gillray

 

11. Jan Sobieski’s men raise the Ottoman siege of Vienna

 

12. Prisoner of the harem: Sultan Osman III

 

13. The Ottoman envoy Ahmed Resmî Effendi’s arrival in Berlin, 1763

 

14. The original manuscript of Frederick the Great’s
Anti-Machiavel
, with annotations by Voltaire

 

15. Pages from the German edition of Benjamin Robins’s
New Principles of Gunnery

 

16. The city the Spaniards failed to find: Machu Picchu, Peru

 

17. Boneyard Beach, South Carolina

 

18. You do the work … Millicent How’s indenture document

 

19. … you get the land: Abraham Smith’s land grant

 

20. The American dream: a piece of Charleston

 

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