Colonialism has been a central part of history around the world, differing only in form over time and space. After all, whenever people have moved from one place to another, they have colonised spaces ...

It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia ...

African and European relations in the last century of the transatlantic slave trade / David Eltis -- Background to annexation : Anglo-African credit relations in the Bight of Biafra, 1700-1891 / David ...

Wars, occupations, and colonisation have long been driven by the struggle for the earth's resources. History shows us that the Roman Empire invaded Egypt primarily to seize its abundant grain.

The teaching of France's imperial past at school is hostage to an ideological framework that euphemises or obscures the abuses of the colonial era 'The resistances of colonised people', such as during ...

A new book explores the country’s history, from world famous rock art to colonial genocide and the struggle for freedom.

Human history is etched into the DNA of domesticated animals, which is when we bend the evolutionary trajectory of species to serve our own purposes. We primates have domesticated many animals, ...