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For sharing and discussing images, videos, articles and questions pertaining to colonialism and the various colonial empires that have existed throughout history.

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/r/Colonialism

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"Around us knowledge has been extinguished, and recruitment of men of religion and men of law has ceased; that is to say, we have made Muslim society much more miserable, more disordered, more ignorant, and more barbarous than it had been before knowing us." -Alexis de Tocqueville on Algeria

2 Comments
2024/03/15
23:32 UTC

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Help me understand Stokely Carmichael's "influence/power" dichotomy?

"Fourth, I do not think that liberals understand the (4) difference between/influence and power,and the liberals get confused seeking influence rather than power. The conservatives on the right wing,or the fascists, understand power, though, and they move to consolidate power while the liberal pushes for influence."

This differentiation is giving me trouble. Is "influence" somewhat interchangeable with clout or kudos?

1 Comment
2024/03/06
19:27 UTC

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Book recommendations

I would like to read about life of colonialists and their descendants in south america or southeast asia

I would like to learn about their lives, struggles and privileges.

Can anyone recommend some books?

1 Comment
2024/03/06
03:55 UTC

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if there are any sensible studies of the social sources of colonialism?

Dear friends, I have a question. Does anyone know if there are any sensible studies of the social sources of colonialism? Is it even possible to talk about something like this? Given that in the societies of the colonisers there were sometimes philosophical movements designed to justify colonialism, is there any research on the societies of the colonising powers? Or is there anyone who could tell me about it? Maybe I'm wrong, but from my perspective, this is a kind of a blank spot in postcolonial studies at the moment, and I would like to know if anyone has done any research on this at all.

1 Comment
2024/02/04
16:39 UTC

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Battle of Tétouan, 1860 (Spanish-Moroccan War, 1859-1860), Painting by Vicente Palmaroli y González in 1870

2 Comments
2023/11/15
23:04 UTC

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Allied soldiers in China after the Boxer Rebellion - March, 1901

2 Comments
2023/10/04
00:33 UTC

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"Angola Grand Prix and Luanda City Cup, February 19 and 20 1959"

2 Comments
2023/09/23
16:32 UTC

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Sea battle between French and Portuguese warships off the coast of Brazil. Engraving by Theodor de Bry, 1592.

5 Comments
2023/09/10
20:39 UTC

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Santa Isabel (current Malabo), 11 October 1968. A day before of the signing of the Independence of Equatorial Guinea.

3 Comments
2023/09/06
23:25 UTC

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any danish colonial songs?

i really wanna know, if there exist any danish songs, about the colonies, in the west indies, or the gold coast. i know there is french colonial music, as well as, british, and german colonial music, but i can't find any danish colonial music, do you guys know any danish, colonial songs.

3 Comments
2023/08/11
12:28 UTC

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'Colonialism has no place on the earth!' — Soviet poster (1961) showing a man removing a colonial officer from Africa with the flags of Africa behind him.

5 Comments
2023/07/17
15:36 UTC

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First hand accounts by german colonial soldiers/officials circa 1890s?

Would be greatly appreciated

2 Comments
2023/07/14
09:00 UTC

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''The March of Gálvez'', through the Swamps to attack the British forts of Manchac and Baton Rouge, during the Spanish aid in the American War of Independence, 1779 (Part of American Revolutionary War & Anglo-Spanish War, 1779-1783), Painting by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau

5 Comments
2023/07/09
22:34 UTC

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Train between Peking (Beijing) and Tientsin (Tianjin) under the protection of the UK, US, France and Japan during a period of unrest in China - 1926

2 Comments
2023/06/28
04:15 UTC

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The Return, ''Action of 9 August 1780'' (Part of American War of Independence & Anglo-Spanish War, 1779-1783), Painting by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau

3 Comments
2023/06/04
01:09 UTC

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Pro-slavery cartoon that portrays slaves as living a happy and care-free existence whilst a British family is left to starve - 1832

3 Comments
2023/05/28
01:57 UTC

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Canadian Pacific "Royal Train", commissioned during the royal couple's visit to the nation, May-June 1939

2 Comments
2023/05/19
22:24 UTC

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Episodes of the Conquest, The Massacre of Cholula, 1519 (Part of Spanish Conquest of Mexico), Painting by Félix Parra in 1877

2 Comments
2023/05/11
18:19 UTC

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'Arab prisoners are brought into Tripoli by the Italian Army', Italian Tripolitania - 1915

2 Comments
2023/04/28
12:08 UTC

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Can russia and japan get subs? Both had pretty large *colonial* empires and even larger conquered territory

Title

1 Comment
2023/04/21
18:11 UTC

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Igorot people imported from the Philippines for display at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition - 1904

3 Comments
2023/04/13
06:46 UTC

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War and capitalism, or the transformation of human blood into gold - England and her war in South Africa (Germany, 1899)

3 Comments
2023/04/07
19:31 UTC

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Danish West Indian newspaper featuring advertisements for slave auctions and a notice issued by a woman promising a reward for the return of a runaway slave - 1771

2 Comments
2023/04/02
03:50 UTC

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'Portugal kills Angolese with NATO weapons', demonstrators in Amsterdam protesting Portugal's actions in its Angola colony - 1963

3 Comments
2023/03/22
07:52 UTC

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'View and description of the forts that the Dutch, English and Danish have on the coast of Guinea' - c. 1719

3 Comments
2023/03/09
06:11 UTC

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Belgian Minister of the Colonies, Louis Franck, on a visit to the Congo - c. 1920s

2 Comments
2023/02/22
06:35 UTC

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