These staged photographs, which became picture postcards, are the subject of “The Colonial Harem,” by Malek Alloula, an Algerian poet and literary critic who died, in 2015, as an exile in Paris.

Montague, a 77-year-old French public health worker, says he has collected between 1,600 and 1,700 postcards of Cambodia from the colonial era, all of them windows into the French colonial mindset. In ...

The French, unusually high-minded for a colonial empire, granted universal male suffrage to all its citizens across the world in 1873, even as it upheld upper-caste Hindu laws for the residents of ...

The humble picture-postcards acted as foot soldiers of the colonial expansionist mindset. It reinforced national pride in how much and how far the British Empire had spread and ruled. Until that ...

Christophe Boucher will speak about French colonial ambitions in Florida during a lecture Thursday at Florida Southern College in Lakeland.. Boucher, an associate professor of history at the ...

The 26 artifacts were among thousands taken by French colonial troops in the late 19th century from the kingdom of Dahomey, which is now the Republic of Benin in West Africa.

Algeria marks 80th anniversary of May 8, 1945 massacres, commemorating the thousands of victims killed during France’s crackdown on independence demonstrations - Anadolu Ajansı ...