At a time when many may feel that good news has gone the way of the dodo, look no further than the homeland of that long-extinct bird — Mauritius —…
Leon Golub once related a story to a mutual friend. A Chicago artist famous for large canvases depicting crimson torture rooms in Central America, Golub had been asked what it meant to him…
Introduction The eighteenth century in India which coincides with the decline of the Mughal empire has for long been an area of intense debate among historians. Historians like Harbans Mukhiya,…
Introduction When it comes to India, it is natural to expect that with such a massive size of its geographical extent and population, the volume of inland trade would have…
The unified German Empire, proclaimed in Versailles in January 1871, contemplated balancing the division of the world’s colonies, the markets, and the sources of the world’s raw material.[1] Exceptionally, the…
Denmark often portrays itself as a bastion of equality and human rights. Yet its history in both the Caribbean and the Arctic tells a different story. The U.S. Virgin Islands—once…
Discourse on Colonialism is a text published in 1950 by Martinique poet Aimé Césaire. Césaire was deeply influenced by Hegel, Marx, and the Surrealist movement. African and French literature was…
The “Black Continent” of Africa until the end of the eighth decade of the 19th century was not properly known territory, especially its central parts which have been unknown to…
Imperialism and colonialism One of the focal historical features of the western (West European) civilization was and is imperialistic colonization followed by the brutal social, economic, political, financial, etc. exploitation…
Irony of Historic National Freedom and Unspoken Tyranny of Imperialism Do nations and civilizations grow out of the moral mire of military conquests, killings of innocent people, political cruelty and…
Consider living under a set of laws decreed by a racist theocratic dictator calling for ethnic cleansing, slavery, and cultural genocide if not outright genocide. It would probably not be…
Jean Paul Sartre in the preface to, 'The Wretched of the Earth: The European elite manufactured a native elite by picking up promising adolescents, branded them with western culture, stuffed…
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