A new study in the Review of Economic Studies suggests that areas where Dutch colonizers built sugar factories in the 19th century are more developed today. Colonial powers have typically organized ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) David A. Vivian, Soka University of America (THE CONVERSATION) For weeks, the French ...

FOX Business' Stuart Varney, in his latest "My Take" on "Varney & Co.," warned that the Colonial Pipeline hack would "require a proportionate, war-like response" if it drags on and cripples part of ...

What if a colony is neither extractive nor settler material? European powers colonized some areas for military reasons: to keep those areas out of rivals' hands or to have geographically strategic ...