ON SEPTEMBER 20, 1871, a 25-year-old Russian biologist named Nikolai Miklucho-Maclay stepped off the ship Vityaz and onto the beach at Astrolabe Bay in New Guinea. He came to meet Indigenous Papuans, who until that moment had likely never glimpsed a European.
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1848+: The End(s) of History 