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On March 2022, a few days after the first strikes of the Russian army on Ukrainian territory began, Time Magazine published a special issue on the topic with the title "The Return of History", subtitled "How Putin Shattered Europe's Dreams". As a backdrop, the cover featured a full-page, almost black and white photograph of a military tank with six soldiers looking straight into the camera. Although the phrase was most likely meant metaphorically and is obviously hyperbolic, the cover did express what seemed to be a widespread sentiment: something important had changed, and (Western) Europe was confronted with a reality it had deemed long gone, or at least, safely restrained. For those of us attentive to discourses around history, however, this cover – as many comments and declarations by analysts, journalists and politicians which followed a similar pattern – tapped into fundamental questions about how events are framed in specific temporal and spatial narratives.

Intro -- Title Page -- About the Author -- Other titles of interest -- Contents -- From Mesopotamia to Megalopolis -- The Ancient World -- Uruk -- The World's First City -- Mohenjo-Daro -- Mysteries of the Indus Civilization -- Memphis -- The Balance of the Two Lands -- Thebes -- Heart of Egypt's Golden Age -- Hattusa -- Stronghold of the Hittite Empire -- Babylon -- Nebuchadnezzar and the Hanging Gardens -- Nineveh -- Palaces and Temples of Assyrian Kings -- Carthage -- Phoenician and Roman Cities -- Athens -- Birthplace of Democracy -- Linzi -- Cities of Warring States China -- Alexandria -- Greek Capital of Egypt -- Meroë -- Royal City of Nubia -- Jerusalem -- City Founded on Faith -- Rome -- Augustus' City of Stone -- The First Millennium AD -- Teotihuacan -- Where Time and Water Flow -- Tikal -- Crucible of Maya Civilization -- Constantinople -- Christian Capital in the East -- Mecca -- Sacred City of Islam -- Damascus -- Splendours of the Oasis City -- Chang'an -- Capital of Tang China -- Baghdad -- and the Abbasid Caliphs -- Córdoba -- Brilliant Capital of Moorish Spain -- The Medieval World -- Angkor -- Khmer City of Glory -- Palermo -- Norman Jewel of the Mediterranean -- Cairo -- Centre of Islamic Civilization -- Samarkand -- Tamerlane's Chosen City -- Paris -- Pinnacle of Gothic Architecture -- Lübeck -- and the Cities of the Hanseatic League -- Kraków -- Renaissance City of the North -- Venice -- Mistress of the Mediterranean -- Florence -- The Magnificence of the Medici -- Benin -- West African City of the Ancestors -- Timbuktu -- City in the Sands -- Cuzco -- Imperial City of the Inca -- Tenochtitlan -- Aztec City in the Lake -- The Early Modern World -- Lisbon -- in the Age of Discovery -- Rome -- and the Renaissance Papacy -- Istanbul -- City of the Sultans -- Agra -- City of the Taj Mahal -- Isfahan.