colonialism

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President Macron will also address the conference on Friday, having told the World Economic Forum in Davos last month that now was "not a time for new imperialism or new colonialism".

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

Time stretches punishingly throughout this masterful “Magellan,” foregrounding the painful legacy of colonialism and prioritizing a raw splendor that can never truly be conquered.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026

It comes at a time of growing pressure on Western powers to offer reparations for slavery and colonialism, and to return looted artefacts still kept in their museums.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025

It proposes to address hierarchical orders, social rank, slavery, colonialism, expropriation and the interweaving of mind and body, matter and spirit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

You will read more about the US history of settler colonialism, white supremacy, slavery, genocide, and land theft in later chapters.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz