Colonial Legacies
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Shell Nigeria: Colonialism Continues
A short analysis of Shell's role in propping up Nigeria's military dictatorship.
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Trials and Tears
The story of the trials of the Cherokee nation from the "Trail of Tears" onward.
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Imperialism in Africa
A commentary on the partition of Africa in 1877 and the agonising events that have followed in its wake.
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The Vanished Empire
A short analysis of European Colonialism on the continent and what this meant for one of Europe's oldest empires.
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The Falklands Dilemma
An analysis of one of the most recent "colonial" wars.
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The East India Companies and the Birth of Corporate Capital
A concise economic history of the East India Companies
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Cold War Colonialism: A Case Study
The sometimes sordid story of American intervention in Guatemala.
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The Children's War
A short history of Sierra Leone concentrating on the root causes of the current conflict there.
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A Very Short History of Slavery
A short history of slavery and the economic uses to which it was put.
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Eden of Despair
“There might be little food in the land, but there was always colour. The deep blue shadows sat permanently on the mountain slopes, the sea was peacock green. Green was everywhere in all its varieties, the poison bottle green of sisal slashed with black, the pale green of banana trees beginning to turn yellow at the tip to match the sand at the edge of the flat green sea. The land was stormy with colour.”
Graham Greene, The Comedians
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The Southern Frontier
A short history of the continuing colonisation of Chechnya and its neighbours in the Caucuses.
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