Settler colonialism refers to a specific form of colonialism where settlers from a foreign country establish permanent communities and exert control over the indigenous population and their land. It ...

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 ...

The standard version of colonialism, explains Adam Kirsch in his provocative and important new book, involves a relatively small group of colonists—mostly colonial administrators, merchants, and ...

Maxine Oland, a full-time lecturer in Commonwealth Honors College, will be teaching the six credit thesis seminar: Colonialism and Empire in the Spring of 2026. Oland has a PhD in anthropology with a ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay, member of the Governor-General's council of India in 1835, famously said that all the literature of India and Arabia were not worth one single shelf of English literature.

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Speaker 1: From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free ...

Students analyze the relationship between industrialization and colonialism and evaluate the long-term consequences of the processes by which colonial powers extracted wealth from colonized nations.

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Across the world, people are still suffering the long-lasting effects of slavery and colonialism and struggling to get the reparations they deserve from governments and private actors that perpetrated ...