History: specific events and topics

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'AN INNOVATIVE AND EXHILARATING READ' Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in EconomicsEconomic development is not really development without consent.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Latin American radicals engaged in urgent debates over how to combat racism, resist empire, and reimagine the nation-state.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the idea of home came into focus as a place of warmth and comfort, associated with interior spaces and feminine touches.

In 1865 wealthy American expatriate Henry Bergh (18131888) chose suddenly to abandon a life of leisure in Europe.