Alan Williams works for Archaeological & Heritage Management Solutions Pty. He is also a part-time PhD candidate affliated with the Australian National University Like many people, I grew up believing ...

Post-mortems abound. Around the Andean fringes of Amazonia planned colonisation has been written off with monotonous regularity as stillborn or prematurely dead; inevitably 'failure'. But success and ...

Colonisation is often reduced to the occupation of land, the killing and enslavement of people, but South Asia stands as a prime example that the coloniser also colonises the minds and ideas of people ...

It is hard to accept that India would have remained stagnant but for the colonial rule. Actually, we may have modernised ...

There was a growing belief among 19th century French social theorists that the urban-industrial milieu, with its poverty and social dislocation, was a breeding ground for criminal activity. Such ...

Proposed changes to the national curriculum will see school students taught that First Nations Australians experienced European colonisation as an invasion. The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and ...