#Colonial

jayson m porter

RogueChieftan

Did corn/maize influence the English/German word crop, "top of plant (or field whip)"? How colonial/imperial is the expression "ear of corn" (corn on top)? Did the Aztec/Maya refer to maize

Emerican Johnson - Self-Declared Antifa

EmericanJohnson

Paris, 1922: A young Ho Chi Minh struggles to get French workers to care about the "IdPol" of the place and time - the plight of colonial natives. He delivers

Van Jackson ✊🏾

WonkVJ

This speech is kind of incredible. The early summary of it from Stuff did not quite do it justice. Like New Zealand itself, the speech is a hybrid of cosmopolitan

Stephen Bush

stephenkb

I think the National Trust thing matters a lot more than most of the usual "a backbencher with too much time on their hands has got the wrong end of

Brendan Ciarán Browne

brendancbrowne

[Thread] 1. There are a lot of interesting side-conversations happening regarding this event, a lot of twitter chat, and many important takes. Thanks to all. I defer to the views

Kai Nagata 🇨🇦

kainagata

Canada became a country in 1867. Here's what happened in the five years prior (just in B.C.)Smallpox arrives in Victoria. Colonial authorities refuse to vaccinate local Indigenous people. Instead they

A Betrayed Maroon

MBEmpower

Colonialism vs Neocolonialism a short thread: When Nkrumah coined and wrote Neocolonialism it was 1965 and spoke to the evolving of former colonial powers specific to Africa and the perversion

Erkhyan Rafosa

Erkhyan

I hate the argument that all cultures absorb external influences, not because it’s wrong, but because it often ignores nuance.External influences absorbed through grassroots adoption and external influences being mandated

Mitra Sharafi

mjsharafi

Tough but essential reading for this animal lover: @PratikChakrab's chapter 3 on the history of animal experimentation in colonial India in his excellent book, Bacteriology in British India: Lab Medicine

Seán William Gannon

swgannon

1/Four years later Maurice Collis was born across the bay in Dalkey, one of the few Irish colonial servants to use his position to challenge the power of imperial rule.

Francesca Humi

FrancescaHumi

Thread:Most ppl know of the poem, "The White Man's Burden," the ultimate anthem for colonialism. But not everyone realises it was written by Kipling, author of the Jungle Book. And

Chisomo Kalinga, PhD

MissChisomo

Funny cuz today I wanted to share a little “woke” colonial history from the Nyasaland Protectorate about the violent history of hats. Yes, you read that correctly. Hats...(Credit Moses Mphatso

HRH Tanya, Duchess of Exhaustion, GCVO

ladyrocksavage

If another damn Brit uses Canada as an example of a country they think doesn't suffer from colonialism I beg they do their research.When Britain was placing its people here

JazzyDaddyDolla

JazzyDaddyDolla

One part I found interesting about Sèkou Tourè and the PDG (Democratic Party of Guinea) is how they abolished chieftains in Guinea the year before they voted for independence in

Mu Khan

borntomub

The amount of “socialism with American characteristics” types out there is always shocking to me, in that I guess I exist in a “hate Amerikkka” bubble. whether it’s the type

William Carruthers

w_carruthers

The current demolitions taking place in the northern cemetery in Cairo (and the lack of acknowledgement from Egyptology that perhaps this is an issue) are, BTW, one of the reasons

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