Donald Trump's proposal to "take over" Gaza and relocate its population has raised concerns about potential regional instability. But how are the conflicts in the Levant rooted in its history of ...

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 ...

In that article we dedicated to the tragic end of the Dutch Prime Minister and his brother in 1672, we explained that the ...

Why would Oxfam, a once-respected charity, publish a careless and ill thought-out piece of propaganda such as its latest pamphlet, Takers not Makers: The Unjust Poverty and Unearned Wealth of ...

Oxfam International’s report highlights how colonial wealth extraction, particularly from India, has laid the foundation for modern economic inequalities, including the dominance of unearned ...

The war had significant implications for colonial subjects; many Africans served in the French army but returned home with heightened expectations for rights and representation. Little of this was ...

In 1945, the victorious Allied powers gathered in San Francisco to draft a charter for the United Nations, the foundation of a new global order that would make another world war impossible. The ...

New figures released by the government show that the French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine has the most speed radars on its ... The new data, which dates from December 2024, provides an update to the ...

At the end of November, Chad announced that it will end its defense agreement with France, its former colonial ruler. French troops must leave the country by 31 January. The Chadian military ...

The term “Liberated Africans” coincides with a now-little-remembered part of history following the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807 by the United Kingdom’s Parliament, which prohibited the slave ...