Explore the 25 Most POWERFUL Empires in History, from Rome to the British Empire. Discover how military, economic, and ...

Alien floras in regions that were once occupied by the same European power are, on average, more similar to each other compared to outside regions and this similarity increases with the length of time ...

Our understanding of global history tends to center on the major conflicts that caused the most widespread upheaval and loss of life. They include the two world wars and, further back in history, the ...

Few questions in economic history generate more heat than the one that seems, on the surface, most straightforward: Did ...

In early 1946, Europe’s colonial empires were still standing, but the war had badly weakened the economic, political, and military foundations that once kept them in control. Britain and France faced ...

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Anthony Pagden is professor of political science and history at UCLA and the author of "Peoples and Empires" (Modern Library). In the 1960s, as Europe’s once-proud empires shed their remaining ...

This summer, after almost a decade of construction, the Humboldt Forum finally opened. This museum of art from outside Europe has moved into the rebuilt Berlin Palace, and was intended to be a grand ...