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ARE
REVOLUTIONS
DOOMED TO
FAIL?
WorldHistories
FRESH PERSPECTIVES ON OUR GLOBAL PAST
Have nuclear weapons
brought
peace?
Historians debate why
there hasn’t
yet
been
a Third World War
PLUS
North Korea’s
obsession
with the bomb
The Confederate
statue controversy
PRIDE AND
PREJUDICE
A brief history
of homosexuality
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ISSUE 6
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2017
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Queen Victoria’s
Indian condant
How a royal relationship shook an empire
Did Christianity destroy the classical world?
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The world’s nuclear arsenal
is today estimated to number
between 10,000 and 15,000
weapons – a huge gure, but
far lower than the 60,000
stockpiled during the 1980s.
Yet the threat of nuclear war has returned to the
forefront of global politics in recent months, most
notably since North Korea claimed to have nally
achieved its ambition of producing a weapon that
would t on an intercontinental missile – accompanied
by an escalation in the nation’s bellicose rhetoric.
This was matched by the pronouncements of US
president Donald Trump. (“My rst order as president
was to renovate and modernise our nuclear arsenal,”
he tweeted in August. “It is now far stronger and
more powerful than ever before.”)
Despite these and other tensions, no major interna-
tional conict has been fought since 1945.
Has ‘nuclear
deterrence’ played an important role in global peace?
ISSUE 6
Another change since the 1980s – in much of the
western world, at least – is social acceptance of homo-
sexuality. Yet, as Brian Lewis explores from page 68,
same-sex relationships have been widespread in
societies and cultures throughout time and across
the globe
: as he writes, “the world and its history are
And how have shifts in the balance of power – such as
nations acquiring nuclear capabilities – destabilised the
situation? In the rst of two topical features this issue,
experts debate those and other key questions. That’s on
page 38. Then, from page 48, we explore
the history
of North Korea’s nuclear ambitions
and how it can
help us make sense of the situation today.
much queerer than we imagine”. Some details of this
history now appear alien, and aspects of some histori-
cal relationships seem hard to justify when viewed
through modern eyes. Yet they may still have some-
thing to teach us about sexuality in the 21st century.
There’s much more, of course, including a look
at the
striking artwork of the Scythian people
of
antiquity who roamed the vast grasslands between
China and the Black Sea (page 78), and an exploration
of the part played by
Christians in the destruction
of the classical world
(page 84).
We’re back on 8 Novem-
ber when – among other
things – we’ll be debunking
common myths about the
Aztecs, exploring the natural
resources that have most
shaped global history, and
much else besides. Until
then, enjoy the issue.
Matt Elton
Editor,
BBC World Histories
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CONTENTS
Features
ISSUE 6
The 1770 Boston
Massacre, a pivotal
event in the build-up
to the American
Revolution, as seen
in an 18th-century
engraving. This
issue, we explore
the impact of such
uprisings around
the world
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THE BIG QUESTION
48
Why North Korea
went nuclear
✪
BY NICOLA LEVERINGHAUS
Are revolutions doomed
to failure?
✪
Six experts debate whether uprisings have
ever achieved their aims
28
The empress and
the Munshi
✪
The surprising relationship between Queen
Victoria and her beloved Muslim attendant
The atomic threat posed by Pyongyang now
seems greater than ever. But how did North
Korea arrive at its current nuclear status?
And what does the country
really
want?
68
Pride and prejudice
✪
BY BRIAN LEWIS
38
BRIDGEMAN ART LIBRARY
From ancient Greece to 20th-century law
courts, a history of global sexual diversity
Have nuclear weapons helped
to maintain global peace?
✪
✪
On the
cover
78
Scythians: The art of war
BY ST JOHN SIMPSON
A panel of historians discuss whether
the ‘bomb’ has made the world safer
The curator of a new exhibition at the British
Museum on the nomads’ striking artefacts
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