Since the ending of colonial rule, the struggle for independence in Kenya has been seen as a triumph for the nationalist politics of the Kenya African National Union (KANU), the party that was victorious in the 1963 elections and held po... DM Anderson - 《Journal of Contemporary History》...
The urban approach to urban planning during Japanese colonization (1910-1945) boils down to the dimension of colonial rule and exploitation of the Korean Peninsula. Japanese imperialism has left positive and negative aspects on cities on the Korean Peninsula. Positive aspects are the introduction of ...
Etter, Anne-Julie. 2011. "Antiquarian Knowledge and Preservation of Indian Monuments at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century." In Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India, edited by Indra Sengupta and Daud Ali, 123-146. New York: Palgrave Macmillan....
After the dissolution of the Order, the Templars found refuge in Portugal under a new ‘Order of Christ.’ Our guide spoke of the secret knowledge the order brought in and how that influenced Portugal’s Age of Discoveries, including Vasco da Gama’s travel to India. Ostensibly, much of th...
French Colonial architecture, an opera house standing at the city center, a Catholic church – scattered throughout the city one can still see the lingering vestiges of the French colonial rule. At the same time, this is a city that has followed, and still follows, an explosive growth ...
Textile Work, Gender, and the Female Life Course in Europe and China since the Beginning of the “Great Divergence,” Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries was published in Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History on page 179.
I had memories and like my parents and grandparents I wanted to tell those stories, but I was afraid they would wander from my mind, or that one day in the future, someone like me might LOVE to find a book of memories about how things used to be. The world changes every day and I...
The cause of the systematic daily march of barometric pressure in the tropics, notably the late morning and late evening peaks seen almost every day at all locations, was a puzzle that persisted through the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries. The efforts to explain the physics of ...