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A Short Overview of Making Colonial Empires by European Powers from the Time of the Vienna Congress up to WWI (1815−1914)
The period in the world’s history from the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) to the beginning of the Great War (1914) is ...
Rare Colonial New England coin up for auction, expected to fetch $1 million
With their former countrymen divided and lacking a monarch after the English Civil War, Colonists seized an opportunity to ...
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The real barbarians: How the French and British civilized Africa
Both colonizers, despite their differences, aimed at squeezing profit for their imperial centers The colonial footprints in Africa paint a ...
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What’s Driving the Proliferation of Colonialism-Themed Exhibitions Around the World
More and more cultural institutions are finding ways to atone for their forebears’ past atrocities through art.
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Essays on Colonialism and Indigeneity in and Beyond the P.R.C.
Uyghur villages have been Sinicized in Xinjiang. Local communities have been displaced for state-sponsored infrastructure projects in Tibet. News editors have been convicted of sedition in Hong Kong.
Port Blair was named after this British officer: A glimpse into history
Port Blair has been renamed Sri Vijaya Puram by the Central Government to shed the British colonial imprints. The capital ...
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Exploring Sri Lanka's forgotten remote island
This tiny 11-kilometre-long, six-kilometre-wide strip, 30 kilometres off the coast of northern Sri Lanka, is the country's ...
To American revolutionaries, patriotism meant fair dealing with one another
In September 1774, nearly two years before the Declaration of Independence, delegates from 12 of the 13 Colonies gathered in the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia. They quickly hammered out a ...
Part II: The evolution of the Indian press – A pillar of resistance in colonial and nationalist struggles
The first newspaper in India is credited to James Augustus Hickey, who launched The Bengal Gazette, also known as The ...
The Judges Who Serve at Trump’s Pleasure
The Founders abhorred a judiciary more loyal to the Crown than to the rule of law. But now the independent system they ...
I won’t add politically correct labels to exhibits, says new British Museum director
Dr Nicholas Cullinan is taking over a landmark institution under pressure on fossil fuel funding and its colonial legacy ...
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Port Blair Gets Rechristened As Sri Vijaya Puram, But Who Was The British Officer It Honoured?
The Central Government, on Friday, announced the renaming of Port Blair, the capital city of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, ...