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FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE and author of EAST WEST STREET THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Should be read by anyone who cares about justice, humanity and human rights' Elif Shafak 'An essential account' Sunday Times 'Powerful and persuasive . . . superb' Abdulrazak Gurnah...

In the 1980s, Phil Bellfy pondered the question: Why does Sault, Ontario, appear to be so prosperous, while the "Sault" on the American side has fallen into such a deplorable state? Could the answer be that the "American side" was little more than a "resource colony"--or to use the academic jargon of "Conflict and Change" Sociology--an "Internal Colony."

The Napoleonic Wars radically altered the old, established European power dynamics, and in 1795, the British, now emerging as the globe’s naval superpower, assumed control of the Cape as part of the spoils of war. In doing so, they recognized the enormous strategic value of the Cape as global shipping routes were developing and expanding. Possession passed back and forth once or twice, but more or less from that point onward, the British established their presence at the Cape, which they held until the unification of South Africa in 1910.

From the ancient Nok culture to the rise of the Oyo Empire, the transatlantic slave trade, and the creation of modern Nigeria under British colonial rule, this show charts the turbulent history of West Africa's most populous nation. Join Lucas and Luna as they explore the kingdoms of Benin, Hausa city-states, the Sokoto Caliphate, and the Igbo societies that shaped the region. They'll dissect the Berlin Conference of 1884, the amalgamation of 1914, the Biafran War, and the long shadows of independence leaders like Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo, and Ahmadu Bello. Through episodes on the Niger...

Sri Lanka's story is a microcosm of South Asian history: a teardrop-shaped island where Buddhism met Hinduism, colonialism collided with ancient kingdoms, and ethnic tensions erupted into a 26-year civil war. Lucas and Luna guide listeners from the arrival of Prince Vijaya in the 6th century BCE to the rise of the Anuradhapura kingdom, whose towering dagobas and monastic complexes rivaled any in India. They explore the Chola invasion of the 11th century, the flourishing Polonnaruwa period under Parakramabahu I, and the Kandyan kingdom's fierce resistance to Portuguese, Dutch, and British ...

The moving, inspiring David-and-Goliath true story of freedom and justice involving one tiny nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa, and the extraordinary woman, a descendant of slaves, who dared to take on the Crown and the United Kingdom—and win a historic victory In 1973, on the...

Build your first beehive from scratch and create a flourishing hive with this beekeeping bible. This audiobook has everything a novice needs to get started, as well as anecdotes and tips to inspire and instruct an experienced beekeeper.

The powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island, that the New York Times says "could not be more timely." In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged...

In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Rather than offer yet another account of ‘the Aboriginal problem’, she theorises a strategy for living in a society that has only ever imagined Indigenous peoples as destined to die out. Drawing on her own experiences and observations of the operations of the colony, she exposes the lies that settlers tell about Indigenous people.

*National Bestseller* A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths--about race, gender, and immigration--exposed by the Lost Colony of Roanoke In 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast...

Unscripted, minimally edited one on one conversation with a guest - one simple childhood, the extraordinary journey that followed. This podcast was created as a result of reader messages of the book "Colony Diaries". For nominating yourself or a guest, please write to colonydiary@gmail.com

This prize-winning and critically acclaimed history uses foreign relations as the lens through which to tell the story of America's dramatic rise from 13 disparate colonies huddled along the Atlantic coast to the world's greatest superpower.

This is an early history of the failed attempt to found the colony of North Australia at Gladstone, in what is now Central Queensland. (Summary by Timothy Ferguson)

Transformations in Portugal and Brazil followed the discovery of gold in Brazil's hinterland and the hinterland's subsequent settlement. Although earlier conquests and evangelizations had incorporated new lands and peoples into the monarchy, royal officials now argued that the extraction of gold and the imperatives of rivalry and commerce demanded new approaches to governance. Using archival records of royal and local administrations, Kirsten Schultz shows how the eighteenth-century Portuguese crown came to define and defend Brazil as a "colony" that would reinvigorate Portuguese power.

For over 400 years, the mystery of Roanoke’s “Lost Colony” has puzzled historians and spawned conspiracies - until now. Hatteras native and amateur archaeologist Scott Dawson compiles what scholars know about the Lost Colony along with what scholars have found beneath the soil of Hatteras.

The American Revolution was not merely a colonial rebellion—it was a world-altering conflict that saw thirteen fractious colonies unite to dismantle the British Empire's grip on North America. Hosts Lucas and Luna guide listeners through the war's full arc, from the Stamp Act crisis of 1765 and the Boston Massacre to the Continental Army's desperate winter at Valley Forge and the final triumph at Yorktown in 1781. They explore the ideological ferment of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, the military leadership of George Washington, and the diplomatic genius of Benjamin Franklin that secured ...

From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura comes a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms. For a woman traveling without her husband in the late nineteenth century, there was only...

In The Time beneath the Concrete, Nasser Abourahme argues that settler colonialism is always as much an attempt to conquer time as it is to conquer land. Taking as his primary object Palestinian refugee camps, created in the fallout of the eliminatory violence of Israel's founding, Abourahme shows how these camps become the primary place where settler colonial attempts to dominate space and time encounter Indigenous refusal. Seen from the camps, Israel becomes a settler colonial project defined by its inability to move past the past—a project stuck at its foundational moment of conquest.

How China used a network of surveillance to intern over a million people and produce a system of control previously unknown in human history Novel forms of state violence and colonization have been unfolding for years in China’s vast northwestern region, where more than a million and a half...

Dive into the riveting exploration of a new continents discovery and the tumultuous questions that arose Who claims it? How will it be governed? What benefits await a sovereign? In Old Times in the Colonies, Mr. Coffin presents these inquiries with a blend of engaging storytelling, sharp wit, and candid insights. This captivating journey reflects on the myriad influences of European life that drove many to risk everything for a brighter future across the ocean. As you navigate through the narrative, youll gain a deeper understanding of the concept of Separation of Church and State and discover...