#Colonies

Looking over some recent work on history of #tourism and #travelwriting I’m once again struck by the question: can you really write about 19thC tourism without thinking seriously about empire
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Commentary thread as I read through Tomino's 1997 novel "Secret Rendevouz - Amuro and Lalah" via machine translation Lalah is from a place called カバス (Kabas?) and grew up in
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Congo before and after colonization. In the period from 1885 to 1908, many well-documented atrocities were perpetrated in the Congo Free State which, at the time, was a colony under
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France has never been colorblind in its colonies or in the metropole. Marcon‘s policy is certainly a longer French practice that is premised on notions of whiteness, belonging, unbelonging, and
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Interesting fault-lines developing on the principal Williams thesis that slavery significantly contributed to the British Industrial Revolution. The 'small percentages' critics of the profits of the slave trade, as well
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IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the
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you guys know about the Hendra virus right? it’s a bat disease named for the suburb of Brisbane where it was first discovered in humans. mostly white men and look,
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why do we say Free Palestine? an educational thread. israelis and Palestinians are not ‘fighting over religion’. israelis are the oppressors whilst Palestinians are the oppressed. the situation is nothing
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The fact that people cant recognize fascism unless it looks like nazi germany is very dangerous I just read a few papers on how nazism was framed after WW2 in
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Thread on @PIDEpk findings @PIDEpk has explored in our webinars and our work. @ImranKhanPTI @HamidMirPAK @MoeedNj 1 covid and pointed out out the economic impact, smart lockdown, needed social protection,
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the education system is one of the largest reproducers of racism (IN THE UK) slavery and colonialism isn’t taught with entire truth and historical accuracy - i remember being taught
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1 : A young Dalit girl Jyoti Kumari had to travel for more than thousand of kilometer carrying her injured father in cycle from Gurgaon to Bihar amidst lock down.
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I wonder why Fauci was so quick to want to shutdown the booming Trump economy all across the nation, why He wants to keep it down for months & months,
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Bose and Nazi Germany. You can’t judge him. He sought freedom too. An article I came across. Sharing it down. Your views are welcome :) Bullet-point summation of why an
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The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was signed to promote competition and reduce regulation in order to secure lower prices and higher quality service for consumers. But what it actually did
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short thread on maroonage in Suriname, which has remained autonomous from external rule since British colonization ~350 years ago.https://twitter.com/strugglerred/status/1390045083118960641 before i start, my main source is a 2006 essay by
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