Debates about the effects of European colonial rule on the non-European world animated economic history scholarship since the 1850s when Karl Marx published essays on British rule in India in the New ...

Padraic X. Scanlan levels familiar charges against British colonialism and capitalism in Rot: A History of the Irish Famine.

In colonial India the British implement a policy of global labor ... adaptations to create forms of family and community life. By 1850s Hong Kong Governor John Bowring, reports seeing Chinese ...