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In the nineteenth century, the Netherlands and its colonial holdings in Java were the sites of dramatically increased in
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David Franks, a colonial businessman in Philadelphia, was one of the most important figures in American Jewish history i
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Late Western colonialism often relied on the practice of imitating indigenous forms of rule in order to maintain power;
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Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twent
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These essays, by thirteen specialists from Japan and the United States, provide a comprehensive view of the Japanese emp
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In the 18th century, bioprospectors sponsored by European imperial powers brought back medicines, luxuries, and staples
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Works such as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim, Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out, E. M. Forster
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On 9 January 1632, at the inauguration of the Amsterdam Illustrious School - the predecessor of the city's universi
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Taking in the bulk of Alexander the Great's Asian conquests, the Seleucid Empire encompassed remarkable ethnic, rel
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The demand for higher education worldwide is booming. Governments want well-educated citizens and knowledge workers but
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