"The objects were wrongfully brought to the Netherlands during the colonial period, acquired under duress or by looting," it added. Sri Lanka is grateful to the government and the people of the ...

Real wages declined during the British colonial period, reaching a nadir in the ... In a recent paper in the journal World Development, we used census data to estimate the number of people ...

It also ended Haiti's dominance of world sugar production ... as well as in Louisiana in the United States. During the colonial period in the United States, tobacco was the dominant slave-produced ...

Intramuros is also home to Spanish colonial period monuments and structures from this period ... Intramuros was occupied by Japanese forces during World War II, bore witness to the massacre of ...

Indeed, in the Spanish view, the quest to spread Catholicism to every corner of the world was a central pillar ... Inquisitorial records from the colonial period are filled with vibrant characters ...

Recent visitors praised Colonial Williamsburg, saying it offered an expertly recreated step back in time and helped them understand more about this period and our nation's history. This history ...

A new study from the World Inequality Lab finds that the present ... which occurred during the inter-war colonial period from the 1930s until India’s independence in 1947, the top 1% held ...

The term colonial architecture broadly refers to the buildings and homes that were constructed during a period of colonization ... a safe haven in the new world.” As resources became more ...

An American silver coin from before the American Revolution that was recovered in an old cabinet in Amsterdam sold for $2.52 million at an auction, decimating the previous record. The threepence ...

since the appearance of human beings to contemporary challenges faced by Africans and their Diasporas in the world. It is a history that no longer leaves the pre-colonial period in the shadows and ...

Indentured servants became vital to the colonial economy ... A new life in the New World offered a glimmer of hope; this explains how one-half to two-thirds of the immigrants who came to the ...