Spain and Portugal came to dominate South and Central America with Britain and France fighting for ... its competitors in lucrative colonial trade. Denmark could be considered the most successful ...

Much attention has been paid to France’s relationship with New Caledonia in recent months, but France has also been compelled ...

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University of Miami Religious Studies Professor Henry A. Green highlights the story of Jews who fled their homelands in the ...

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But the tools are anything but objective, a new exhibition suggests ... and a variety of loaning institutions to tell the story of colonial measurements. Maps, scales, surveyors’ tools, rulers ...

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Vivian, Soka University of America ... in these colonies. And their descendants, known as “békés,” became the dominant force of a deeply inegalitarian society. Despite France’s abolition ...