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It is chilling to contemplate what might have happened if Gobavech had behaved like the Serbian leadership - or like the French in Algeria.

The remains of the wall built by West Indies Company to defend its colony against Indians and British are today paved over by the world's most famous street - Wall Street.

The idea of spilling blood for the sake of oil would have seemed ludicrous. You might fight a war over land, gold, pepper or slaves, but not oil.

That's why many cultures concluded that making bundles of money was sinful. As Jesus said, 'It is easier for a camel to pas through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God' (Matthew 19:24). If the pie is statis, and I have a big part of it, then I must have taken somebody else's slice. The rich were obliged to do penance for their evil deeds by giving some of their surplus wealth to c

"This enterprise may sound a little strange to us, but in the early modern age it was common for private companies to hire not only soldiers, but also generals and admirals , cannons and ships, and even entire off-the-shelf-armies."
"VOC ruled Indonesia for close to 200 years. Only in 1800 did the Dutch state assume control of Indonesia, making it a Dutch national colony for the following 150 years."

- in particular private property rights. Capital trickles away from dictatorial states that fail to defend private individuals and their property. Instead, it flows into states upholding the rule of law and private property."

"Amsterdam was fast becoming not only one of the most important ports of Europe, but also the continent's financial Mecca."
"How exactly did the Dutch win the trust of the financial system? Firstly, they were sticklers about repaying their loans on time and in full, making extensions of credit less risky for lenders. Secondly, their country's judicial system enjoyed independence and protected private rights - in

In truth, neither the narrative of oppression and exploitation nor that of 'the White Man's burden' completely matches the facts. The European empires did so many different things on such a large scale, that you can find plenty of examples to support whatever you want to say about them.

Linguistics received enthusiastic imperial support. The European empires believed that in order to govern effectively they must know the languages and cultures of their subjects.

...Far better, indeed, than any previous conquerors, or even than the native population itself.

Rawlinson defied death to do so, scaling the steep cliff to copy the strange letters. He hired several locals to help him, most notably a Kurdish boy who climbed to the most inaccessible parts of the cliff in order to copy the upper portion of the inscription.