Colonialism/Imperialism

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Mount Fuji from Omiya by Kusakabe Kimbei c. 1890
Japan’s Meiji Restoration
Aurangzeb in a pavilion with courtiers below.
Aurangzeb: Mughal Emperor
The Boston Massacre March 5, 1770 painting by William L. Champney depicting British soldiers with guns raised toward Black man
The Boston Massacre
An allotment delegation approaches the Nez Perce
The Dawes Act
Nigerians use phone booth under a poster against Biafran separatists and their leader, General C. Odumegwu Ojuku. 1967.
“No Victor and No Vanquished” - The Biafran War
Meiji Constitution promulgation by Toyohara Chikanobu, 1889.
Japan’s Meiji Restoration
The Arrow Incident on October 8 1856
The Second Opium War
Ottoman Empire (1256), Europe (67), Colonialism/Imperialism (1289), Middle East (142), Islam (154)
Süleyman the Magnificent
battle at Tenochtitlan
The Fall of Tenochtitlan
Celebrations for Jamaican Independence, 2012.
Jamaican Independence
Photograph of Augusto César Sandino, taken between 1927 and 1934
The Sandino Manifesto and the Birth of the Nicaraguan Revolution
Ferdinand Magellan with an antique map behind him
Magellan and Elcano: The First Circumnavigation of the Earth
A Uyghur hunter in Kashgar, 2005.
Xinjiang: From Autonomy to Dystopia
The Benin Bronzes in the African Gallery at the British Museum.
LOOT: Colonial Collections and African Restitution Debates
French soldiers overrun Chinese troops during the 1860 campaign in the Second Opium War.
The Second Opium War
Comic from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun.
“A New and Deadly Menace” (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 2)
Advertisement of an upcoming land sale by the United States Department of the Interior in 1911. The Interior Department published many similar advertisements to encourage white settlers to purchase "excess" reservation lands.
The Dawes Act
Two pictures of Tom Torlino, a member of the Navajo Nation.
Erasing Indigenous History, Then and Now
Close-up of Indian couple's hands during wedding ceremony
Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India
The Nuremburg Map of 1524 is the earliest known European visualization of Tenochtitlan
The Fall of Tenochtitlan
The Ganden Monastery in Lhasa was one of the many victims of bombing during the 1956 uprising. The destruction caused to the monastery is still visible in the ruins.
The Seventeen Point Agreement: Seventy Years of China’s Occupation of Tibet
A COVID-19 antigen testing center in Warora, Maharashtra, India.
The Deep Roots of India’s COVID-19 Crisis
Malawi
A Postcard from Livingstonia, Malawi
A polar bear steps off an ice slab.
Killing the Arctic