There are 6 item(s) tagged with “colonialism” on this site.
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“The British had been involved India since the 1600s, when the East India Company set up trading operations there to import silk, cotton, and spices. The company slowly took control of large parts of the country through economic means, until they exerted de facto control of India in the mid-1700s….”
“There are ‘epic’ novels, and then there’s this. It’s the history of South Africa, starting in 14,000 BC and ending in 1978. There are 14 chapters, and each chapter handles a different time period. We start about 10,000 years back with cave dwellers wandering the southern part of the continent,…”
“Fantastic book about the history of American colonialism, from the Philippines (which we set free) to Puerto Rico (which today exists in some weird in-between state), to dozens of islands (which we keep for geopolitical reasons). There are untold stories here about how the US never quite figured…”
“This is a long novel about a peasant in Colombia in the 1800s. He tries to travel to the ocean, but gets stuck and starts a town. The town grows over the following century, and the book tells the history of all the people that followed him, and what happened. A key point: the town is slightly…”
