The UK has a long #colonialhistory of exploitation & enslavement. It went abroad to India & the Caribbean to accomplish that. The US has exercised its power abroad— Samoa/Guam/Puerto Rico/the Philippines/Marianas/Virgin Islands. The #USgreatestcolonialatrocities, however, remain in CONUS.

What shaped the colonial world: institutions or the pursuit of power and resources? Talha Mahmood questions the settler mortality theory and revisits the historical costs of empire. 🌍
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#ColonialHistory #Imperialism #TheFridayTimes

🖼 Image: Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1736). Map of South America ... Retrieved from digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f24118...

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With support from the ERC Advanced Grant Project “The Making of Monoculture: A Global History” (MaMoGH)

Deadline for submissions: 16 November 2026

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#colonialhistory #empire #imperialhistory #environmentalhistory #historyofknowledge #skystorians
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liberalism. The extensive collection of data allowed a whole socio-ecology to be recast by scarcely detectable means.

#historyofscience #globalhistory #colonialhistory #germanhistory #samoa #skystorians
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Was colonial trade really about progress? 🇳🇬
Nigerian cotton travelled thousands of miles to Britain’s factories, creating opportunities while strengthening colonial control.
But who truly benefited?

#TruthWillRise #NigerianHistory #HiddenHistory #ColonialHistory

I might do a #ColonialHistory post about a certain Genoan explorer for obvious reasons, but in case I don't have the spoons I'll just say the Columbus brothers were monsters.

Correcting the Record: Essays on the History of American Anthropology by Herbert S. Lewis is now available in paperback!

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Review by @choicereviews.bsky.social

#Anthropology #Theory #Methodology #ColonialHistory

How did Salem’s court treat invisible attacks as evidence?
In 1692, witnesses said Sarah Good’s, Sarah Osborne’s, and Tituba’s spirits pinched two girls.
AI-assisted reconstruction from documented history.
#PastBriefly #SalemWitchTrials #ColonialHistory

If I had been present in the 18th century, I wish I had warned Indians about their colonial future. Had they understood the reality earlier and acted in time, they might not have had to suffer through nearly 200 years of colonial rule.
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Adam Ouston's Mine: A K-ism-infused novel exploring Tasmania's colonial history

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Dawes's description further records that as Patyegarang uttered those words she threw "down the towel as in despair." The portrait above is of an unidentified Gamaraigal woman, possibly Patyegarang, drawn around 1800–1804 by Nicolas-Martin Petit. Below is William Dawes c. 1830. #ColonialHistory

Coverture and Anne Bradstreet's poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband."

What's your take?

More on Anne Bradstreet, America's first published poet: youtu.be/q1_2VUwUSQ0?...

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