Articles By David Abulafia
October 2017
The second instalment of Simon Schama's history of the Jewish people is typically energetic but has some serious failings
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October 2016
The colourful life of Steven Runciman: historian, scholar-diplomat, and possibly spy
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September 2016
"Jean-Claude Juncker is not the first Luxembourger to imagine he can dictate the future of Europe"
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June 2016
Brendan Simms's new book places Britain at the centre of European history in unexpected and stimulating ways
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July/August 2015
Universities should not impose quotas on privately educated students. It is a crude tool which may exclude those from humble backgrounds
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November 2014
In a short and ambitious book The History Manifesto, Jo Guldi and David Armitage explore the human condition and who we will become
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May 2014
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January/February 2014
The negative image of Gypsies that persists today is the result of centuries-old xenophobia, misrepresentation and downright fantasy
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January/February 2014
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May 2013
Brendan Simms's new epic history of Europe is an earnest and old-fashioned of great power rivalries
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September 2012
For the sake of the euro, the peoples of southern Europe have turned their backs on the sea that once gave them prosperity
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About David Abulafia
David Abulafia is Professor of Mediterranean History at Cambridge and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. His latest book is The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (Penguin), was awarded the new British Academy Medal.
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