colonial

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It’s worth noting that it was the American officials at the treaty’s drafting sessions who insisted on Article 6, so that the U.S. military would not get roped in to fight Europe’s colonial wars.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2026

The Philippines — with a long, if fraught colonial relationship to American pop culture — punches above its weight in music.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

"Many of Sydney's early colonial buildings are held together with oyster shell."

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

From Koli fisherfolk to colonial planners, and from Bollywood stars to textile barons, many have shaped the western Indian city's landscape and identity.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

In the early colonial period, when settlements remained relatively small, indentured servitude was the dominant means of securing cheap labor.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander