While France embraced the formal regulation of historical memory regarding its colonial past nearly two decades ago with the ...
On the 77th anniversary of Sri Lanka’s independence from colonial rule following foreign domination of some four and a half ...
France had two bites of the cherry when it came to empire-building. Its North American possessions had already been lost when French leaders began a colonial reboot in the 19th century. The second ...
"France believes it has the right to exploit the resources of African countries, leaving their populations in poverty.
It is, however, actually a sampler from Barbados – the earliest known Barbadian sampler in any collection. The RSN sampler is ...
The Architecture of Empire: France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664-1962 by Gauvin A. Bailey McGill-Queen’s University Press 2022. 488 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-01142-2 Reviewed by Rachael Maxon ...
At 7,688,287 square kilometres Australia is the sixth largest country in the world. It is the oldest continent, also home to ...
The highlights of my early life as a “Hydro kid’ at Tarraleah on the Central Plateau actually took place 15 miles away in Bronte Park. Though in those slower days of imperial measure I am sure ...
To understand the origins of the names of Mexico’s states is to understand the country's complex history and diverse culture.
Eve Blouin, daughter of African independence activist Andrée Blouin, speaks to The World’s Host Marco Werman about a new ...
The Founding of Australia 1788 was painted in 1937 by Algernon Talmage. It was commissioned for the sesquicentenary ...