In a short time, the Netherlanders wrested so many foreign colonies and trading posts from their rivals that a sizable empire emerged. Eventually ... large-scale deployment of troops and warships, and ...

While France embraced the formal regulation of historical memory regarding its colonial past nearly two decades ago with the ...

1760s-1820s / Peter Boomgaard -- Science and the Colonial War-State : British India, 1790-1820 / David Arnold -- Collecting and the Pursuit of Scientific Accuracy : The Malaspina Expedition in the ...

Though smaller in scale than Britain, Spain, and other European colonial empires, Sweden had several colonies around the world ... However, their burgeoning colony would collapse just as quickly with ...