BBC World Histories Magazine - March 2020 (gnv64) torrent

BBC World Histories Magazine - March 2020
English | 100 pages | True PDF | 72.8 mb

FEATURES
12 Aztecs in their own words ? BY CAMILLA TOWNSEND
How historians are using pictorial sources and indigenous journals to revise European narratives of Aztec history
20 A time of change ? BY SUSAN MATTERN
The evolution of our understanding of the menopause, and its influence on women’s roles in societies around the world
28 The history of the nation state BY JERRY BROTTON
The idea of national communities forged by geography and culture may seem selfevident. Yet nation states have a relatively short past – and may not have a long future
34 Ideas of nationhood ? BY ANGEL SMITH, JOHN CONNELLY, JOHAN FRANZÉN & DAVID REYNOLDS
What happens when regions want to break away from larger states? Experts review independence movements in Scotland, Catalonia, Iraqi Kurdistan and Yugoslavia
48 Transgender history ? BY JEN MANION
Meet the ‘female husbands’ – individuals assigned as female at birth but living as men – who challenged societal views of sex, relationships, law and work in past centuries
64 Experiments in evil ? BY DAVID EDMONDS
How psychologists devised groundbreaking studies in attempts to understand the behaviours that enabled the Holocaust
THE BRIEFING
6 Viewpoint: Michael Booth explores the long roots of tensions in east Asia
10 History Headlines: Discoveries and developments in the world of history
REGULARS
9 Feedback: Responses to our experts’ nominations for the greatest leader in global history
54 A Year in Pictures: 1982 by Richard Overy
62 Extraordinary People: Sanmao – globetrotting icon of Chinese youth by Mike Fu
98 Parting Shot: Join a mass pilgrimage honouring a sea goddess in Taiwan
CULTURE
72 Interview: Mary Beard discusses the role of the nude in western art with Matt Elton and Janina Ramirez ?
80 Agenda: The latest exhibitions, films, books, events, radio and television
JOURNEYS
86 Wonders of the World: Bhaktapur, Nepal by Paul Bloomfield
90 Footsteps: Nansen’s traverse of the Greenland Ice Sheet by Jon Gertner ?