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Super Continent: The Logic of Eurasian Integration, by Kent Calder, Stanford University Press, RRP$30/£24.99 The author argues that we are witnessing the creation of a Eurasian supercontinent, stretching from southern China to the Atlantic Ocean, as technological, economic and political change create the “world island” first foreseen in the early 20th century by the British strategist, Halford Mackinder. Maoism: A Global History, by Julia Lovell, Bodley Head, RRP£30/Knopf, RRP$37.50 When China’s global influence is rising and the country’s president, Xi Jinping, is reviving some of the rhetoric of the Mao era, the author provides a fascinating account of the influence of Maoism, during the cold war and beyond — in countries as far apart as Zimbabwe, Albania and Cambodia. [...]O’Rourke, an economic historian, provides a very readable account of how we got here — including contemporary issues such as the financial crash and the refugee crisis, and longer-term factors such as British attitudes to free trade, parliamentary sovereignty and empire.