Colonialism

history-politics

British colonization of India refers to the period from the early 18th century to 1947 when the British established and expanded control over much of the Indian subcontinent thr...

history

The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 was a meeting of European powers that established rules for dividing and claiming territory in Africa. Convened by Otto von Bismarck, it did...

history

The British East India Company was a state-chartered trading corporation that became a governing power in South Asia and a decisive force in global history. Founded in 1600 by r...

history

The imperialization of the Congo involved multiple actors across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The process unfolded in stages, beginning with exploration an...

History and Historical Processes

The European transatlantic slave trade was a system of forced migration and labor in which millions of Africans were captured, transported across the Atlantic, and enslaved prim...

history

The transatlantic slave trade occurred after the period of European colonization as a direct consequence and expansion of early colonial activities in the Americas. European col...

economics

European colonization of the Americas between the late 15th and 19th centuries reorganized the hemispheric and global economies by integrating distant regions into shared market...

history

Turtle Island is a name many Indigenous peoples in North America use for the land now called the United States and parts of Canada. The phrase Turtle Island genocide refers to t...

history

At the 1884–1885 Berlin Conference, European powers and the United States regulated the partition of Africa without African participants. Key actors absent from the table incl...

history

The Treaty of Tordesillas is a 1494 agreement between Spain and Portugal, mediated by the Pope, that divided newly explored lands outside Europe along a meridian 370 leagues wes...