Wars, occupations, and colonisation have long been driven by the struggle for the earth's resources. History shows us that the Roman Empire invaded Egypt primarily to seize its abundant grain.

Colonialism has been a central part of history around the world, differing only in form over time and space. After all, whenever people have moved from one place to another, they have colonised spaces ...

African and European relations in the last century of the transatlantic slave trade / David Eltis -- Background to annexation : Anglo-African credit relations in the Bight of Biafra, 1700-1891 / David ...

IT IS SURPRISING that Selvan Naidoo (the POST, March 11-15), who enjoys researching the colonial archives for information about the experiences of his indentured forebears, now advocates ...

The teaching of France's imperial past at school is hostage to an ideological framework that euphemises or obscures the abuses of the colonial era 'The resistances of colonised people', such as during ...

It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia peninsula—and changed history ...

Caves have an isolated, strongly zonal environment and are home to unique and fragile biotas with high levels of endemism. However, little is known about how the biotic colonization of caves developed ...