Rushing around the southern tip of Manhattan, scrambling to save his village, is Peter Stuyvesant, a Dutch West India Company company ... but the 17th-century power dynamics were complex.

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The idea of the Kra Canal – a bypass for the Strait of Malacca – dates all the way back to 1677. But though the technical ...

Ska, reggae, rocksteady, dub and dancehall — all genres born and bred in the coastal city — have played on airwaves worldwide for the better part of the past century. Kingston is preceded by ...

Discover which cities lead in size with their urban and metropolitan populations, such as Tokyo, Delhi, Shanghai and, of ...

Discover Kolkata's fascinating history and how its name evolved from Kalikata, linked to the goddess Kali, colonial ...

Much of the trade that took place before the mid-17th century was controlled by ... but so too did the slave trade. English company Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa and its successor, the ...

I mean, in some ways, I’m also minded to think about the last period of European imperialism in Asia and Africa, where in a sense facing an endgame, what you see is colonial powers like the ...

There are 8000 shipwrecks off Australia alone, many more still to be found. Yet stunning discoveries still happen. What does ...