Whereas all the while the US was a ruthless, rapacious empire. Gore Vidal couldn’t abide the hypocrisy, duplicity and ...

In January 1776, William Franklin, royal governor of New Jersey and Benjamin Franklin's son, was put under house arrest by ...

From the early 19th century on, the United States expanded by acquiring territory through purchase or force. By expressing ...

The formation of the United States of the Ionian Islands under British rule in Greece is a little known period of the country ...

Despite official efforts to decolonise India’s public life, a small but telling colonial habit endures in parks, streets and ...

The trends you’ll see: even more Japanese prime beef, star chefs working the counter and large-format martinis.

For decades Britain held onto a tiny island chain in the Indian Ocean long after its African empire collapsed. Strategic military deals Cold War politics and forced removals kept the territory under ...

On July 4 this year, the United States will mark 250 years since the ratification of the Declaration of Independence, marking ...

The opening salvo in the global war on drugs took place in a Dutch royal palace a century ago, and involved not guns but ...

In January 1899, the American gunboat USS Wilmington set out on an expedition to Venezuela, steaming up the Orinoco River toward the country’s interior. On board was an American diplomat, Francis ...

First articulated in 1823, the Monroe Doctrine was largely meant to stave off European colonial influence in the western ...

In its place, countries are fast adopting a values-neutral, transactional approach toward foreign policy. China was the progenitor of this approach to international relations: for over a decade, ...