In his new book Fortune Seekers, economic historian Raman Mahadevan maps the rise of the Chettiars — and why their vast Southeast Asian network didn’t last.

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Being a storyteller is just fine with the journalist turned historian. “The Fate of the Day,” the second volume in his ...

The Vietnam War inspired enduring literature, from both sides of the world. Even before the war, U.S designs on Southeast ...

At the liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Elie Wiesel – author, Nobel Laureate, survivor – is seen on the second row up near the man standing. April 16, 1945. Photo by Harry ...

Endpapers — the sheets connecting a hardbound book’s cover to its first and final pages — have been a crucial element of ...

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Line Of Duty star Adrian Dunbar has given a rare poetry and art book to the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast. Happenstance was created by the painter Brian Ballard and poet ...

As Leslie affirms in the book, Lennon and McCartney early on developed a personal and creative chemistry that allowed them to elevate each other’s work to the timeless classics still heard ...

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