140 years since the Berlin Congress: The new Scramble for Africa—Part Three
Driven by internal crises and faced with the rapidly declining position of US and European imperialism on the world scale, ...
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"Neither imperialism nor colonialism is a simple act of accumulation and acquisition…
Out of imperialism, notions about culture ... Inland the trade in slaves and commodities was handled by African and Arab merchants. With the British abolition of the slave trade in 1807, the ...
Imperialism, Chagos Islanders And The Fight To Return
In the struggle for the right of return to the Chagos Islands, both the Conservatives and Labour parties (with the notable exception of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn) were also equally complicit ...
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From Empire to Commonwealth: war, race and imperialism in British History, 1780 to the present day
Many of the case studies are Africa focused. Within the context of Britain's wider ... Illustrating Empire: A Visual History of British Imperialism (The Bodleian Library, Oxford; 2011); James Belich, ...
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British Imperialism
During and after the First Anglo-Afghan War, the British embarked on a hybrid form of colonialism, it didn't work. 200 years ago today, the legendary Gorkha rifles were formed.
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Unpacking imperialism: The British Empire in RIBA’s building and collections
The Dominion Screen in the Florence Hall depicts the people, flora, and fauna of South Africa, Australia, India, Canada, and New Zealand. This building, designed by Edwin Lutyens, was built to house ...
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Cecil Rhodes statue in Cape Town has head removed
A statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes ... It is the latest monument associated with imperialism or slavery to be targeted since African American George Floyd was killed in US police custody.
140 years since the Berlin Congress: The new Scramble for Africa—Part Two
The development of the revolutionary socialist movement was inseparably bound up with the struggle against imperialism.