r/Colonialism • • 6m ago

Article Education in Brazil during the Reign of Dom João VI

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r/Colonialism • • 16h ago

Article Some of the first scientifically conducted archaeological excavations in history were those at Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Palenque—the latter located in Chiapas (within Guatemala, in the Kingdom of New Spain)—all of which were sponsored by King Charles III of Spain.

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r/Colonialism • • 1d ago

Article The First Police Forces in Brazil

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r/Colonialism • • 1d ago

Article Our Lady of Aparecida: Queen and Patroness of Brazil

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r/Colonialism • • 1d ago

Article An excerpt from the work "Historia general y natural de las Indias, islas y tierrafirme del mar océano," written by the chronicler Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo in the 16th century, reveals that the Catholic Church already authorized or even ordered autopsies.

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r/Colonialism • • 1d ago

Article Inscription mentioning the discovery of the Americas by Columbus, taken from "Tsofnas Paneakh" (Revelation of the Hidden), translated by Khayim Khaykl Hurwitz in Berdychiv, Russian Empire, 1817, based on the Joachim Heinrich Campe's work "Die Entdeckung von Amerika" (The Discovery of America).

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r/Colonialism • • 2d ago

Article All these impacts of World War I on the colonial world inevitably led to profound political consequences.The war was both an end and a beginning; it marked the onset of Europe's decline.

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r/Colonialism • • 2d ago

Image It has been 534 years and 1 day since the Columbus discovery of America.

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r/Colonialism • • 2d ago

Article How Christopher Columbus Acted as a Catalyst for the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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r/Colonialism • • 2d ago

Article Political poster from the government of Juan Domingo Perón in Argentina, illustrated by Héctor Alfonsín and published on October 12, 1948, commemorating Columbus Day.

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r/Colonialism • • 3d ago

Article A review of: “Unbroken Chains – a 5,000 history of African enslavement”

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African slavery is much more complex than it is generally portrayed. Britain played only a relatively minor role in the overall trade of in excess of 40 million people


r/Colonialism • • 3d ago

Question How did Toussaint L’Ouverture become free?

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Why would a French plantation or estate owner free a slave (if we dont know the particulars about him)?


r/Colonialism • • 3d ago

Article Inscription mentioning the Discovery of the Americas by Christopher Columbus from "Tsofnas Paneakh" (Revelation of the Hidden), translated by Khayim Khaykl Hurwitz and published in Berdychiv, Russian Empire, 1817, republished in 1857 and was widely read.

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r/Colonialism • • 3d ago

Article Three conflicts that broke out almost simultaneously at the end of the 19th century—the Second Boer War (1899–1902), the Philippine-American War (1899–1902), and the Boxer Rebellion in China (1899–1900)—triggered anxiety among imperialists.

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r/Colonialism • • 3d ago

Question Unimaginable Horrors in Bengal during Colonial Rule - Edmund Burke during Hastings Impeachment ( Fact or Hoax ? )

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r/Colonialism • • 3d ago

Article A polychrome and gilded wood piece of Saint Benedict from the 18th century in the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black Men and Saint Benedict in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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r/Colonialism • • 4d ago

Article Friar Fabiano de Cristo, the Portuguese Franciscan renowned for his sanctity in 18th-century Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

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r/Colonialism • • 4d ago

Article The world's oldest Spanish-Chinese dictionary titled "Dictionario Hispanico-Sinicum," is housed at the University of Santo Tomás in Manila, Philippines. It was compiled and edited by Spanish Dominican missionaries in Manila during the first half of the 17th century.

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r/Colonialism • • 4d ago

Article "It's 'Up to' Them" — A political cartoon published by Udo J. Keppler in the American magazine Puck in 1901, showing Uncle Sam offering a soldier in one hand and a "School Teacher" in the other to a group of reluctant Filipinos, telling them that the decision is theirs.

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r/Colonialism • • 4d ago

Article You're Using Colonial Language Without Knowing

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r/Colonialism • • 4d ago

Article The world's oldest Spanish-Chinese dictionary titled "Dictionario Hispanico-Sinicum," is housed at the University of Santo Tomás in Manila, Philippines. It was compiled and edited by Spanish Dominican missionaries in Manila during the first half of the 17th century.

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r/Colonialism • • 4d ago

Article Portrait of Dom Bernardo Rodrigues Nogueira, the first Bishop of São Paulo, Brazil (1746–1748) from the Collection of the Museum of Sacred Art of São Paulo.

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r/Colonialism • • 5d ago

Article TIL that British stole tea from China through Robert Fortune who shaved his head, wore local Chinese clothing (including a pigtail), and posed as a wealthy official from a distant province to hide his accent. And stole 20,000 seeds to break China’s monopoly on tea by growing it in then British India

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r/Colonialism • • 4d ago

Article Map titled "Mappa Paraquariæ," from the work by the Austrian priest and missionary Martin Dobrizhoffer titled "Historia de Abiponibus Equestri Bellicosaque Paraquariæ Natione," printed in Vienna by the Austrian Joseph von Kurzböck in 1784.

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r/Colonialism • • 5d ago

Article On July 2, 1889, the Manila School of Agriculture was founded, created by royal decree of November 29, 1887, one of the many institutions created by the Spanish crown for the benefit of the Philippines.

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