Many scholars have studied the effects of colonial management on terrestrial resources, but what about the effect of colonialism on bodies of water? A new article in Isis: A Journal of the History of ...

History textbooks often frame the founding of America as a series of battles and physical conquests. But early American colonialism wasn’t just built with brutal force — it was engineered in libraries ...

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My birth emerged from European capitalism’s fascistic catastrophe in the 1920s–1940s. That catastrophe also produced Israel’s experiment with settler colonialism in Palestine. This article refers to ...

In the late seventeenth century, the Mughal Empire controlled almost all of the Indian subcontinent. European visitors marveled at the empire’s wealth and grandeur. Antonio Monserrate, a Portuguese ...

Cotton, colonialism, and social history in Sub-Saharan Africa / Allen Isaacman and Richard Roberts -- Cotton policies and African realities -- Note on cotton and climate : a colonial conundrum / ...

A new study shows how the legacy of colonialism is still deeply entrenched within scientific practice across the Caribbean archipelago. Rather than solely critiquing these practices, however, the ...

Global flashpoints, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Chinese actions in Xinjiang, share a common background: a previous history of invasion and occupation. The northwestern region of ...

Tainan is considered the culinary capital of Taiwan. At one of the oldest wet markets in that Southern city, Shuixian Gong Market, the island's vibrant cuisine is on the display. There are displays of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. Colonial America is more than a chapter in a textbook, it's a living, breathing world scattered across ...