To aid in navigation:” the political economy of cotton in the Portuguese Empire. In 1790, British envoy Robert Walpole asked ...

However, there is one neighboring country of India that has never been ruled by any foreign power. Yes, Nepal is the only ...

In the United States, as in Europe, the advent of national citizenship (as opposed to local citizenship) has mirrored and ...

Oba Esigie Expanded his kingdom eastwards to form ... Benin belonged to the British Empire until 1960. Then it became part of the independent country of Nigeria. Today, the Oba of Benin leads ...

Seeking to deepen trade and economic ties with the commonwealth, the British government is putting economic growth at the ...

Private Partnerships (PPPs) are collaborative agreements between governments and private entities designed to finance, build, ...

It is the first admission by Murdoch's corporate empire of wrongdoing by The Sun, which expanded to seven days when he closed the News of the World at the height of the phone hacking scandal in 2011.

The transition from empire to nation-states was far from smooth. Most imperial governments hoped to transform their empires ...

Imagine a world where distant cultures intertwine in a flavorful embrace. That's how the iconic gin and tonic was born. In 19th-century British India, under the rule of the British Empire, two ...

In 1768, the first edition of the “Encyclopedia Britannica” (Latin for British Encyclopedia) appeared in Edinburgh, Scotland.