From Hill Forts to a City of Dreams, How the Marathi People Built an Empire and a Megacity
Heirs of Shivaji’s warrior empire and builders of Mumbai, the proud and enterprising Marathi people stand at the forefront of modern India.
From Rulers of an Empire to Masters of the Good Life, the Austrian Journey
Once the seat of a continent-spanning empire, the Austrians traded grandeur for grace and built a cultured, peaceful life among their mountains, music, and coffee houses.
From the Caesars to the Renaissance, Who Are the Italians
From the legions of Rome to the genius of the Renaissance and the cuisine that conquered the world, the story of the Italians, a fragmented people with a universal cultural legacy.
From the Ruins of Hampi to the Code of Bengaluru, the Long Story of the Kannada People
The Kannada people of Karnataka, their classical Dravidian language, the Hoysala temples, the empire of Vijayanagara, princely Mysore, Deccan sultanates, and the rise of Bengaluru.
From Viking Raiders to the People’s Home, the Swedish Story
From the longships that reached the Caspian to a Baltic empire, and from mass emigration to the famous welfare state, the long and surprising story of the Swedes.
Fulani Herders of the Sahel and Their Nation Scattered Across a Continent
No people in Africa reaches farther than the Fulani. From the Atlantic coast of Senegal to the plains of Sudan, across some twenty countries and four thousand kilometers of savanna,
Gagauz of the Moldovan Steppe, a Turkic People of the Orthodox Faith
In the open steppes of southern Moldova lives one of the most unusual peoples of Europe: the Gagauz, a Turkic-speaking nation who are devout Orthodox Christians. Speakers of a language
Galicians of Spain’s Green Northwest, a Celtic-Rooted People of the Atlantic
In the green, rain-washed northwestern corner of the Iberian Peninsula, above Portugal and facing the Atlantic, live the Galicians, a people whose misty land feels closer to the Celtic north
Gaoshan People, the Austronesian Highlanders of Taiwan
Under a single Chinese name meaning the high mountain people, one of the country’s recognised nationalities gathers the indigenous, Austronesian peoples of the island of Taiwan and their kin on
Garifuna Drummers and Cassava Bakers of the Central American Caribbean Coast
Along the Caribbean coast of Central America lives a people whose very existence is a story of survival. The Garífuna are the descendants of Africans and Indigenous Caribbean peoples who
