Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Jamestown settlement in Virginia, which officially was started on May 14, 1607, was one of the first European colonies to last ...

The EU missed the turn to hard power largely because of a factor that is still shaping Europe to this day: the legacy of empire. For when, in 1954, it came time for the French parliament to ratify the ...

The experience of Holland presents a series of facts of the highest significance in relation to tropical colonization, and the history of the Dutch colonies furnishes us with material for the ...

Alien floras in regions that were once occupied by the same European power are, on average, more similar to each other compared to outside regions and this similarity increases with the length of time ...

Last year was a turning point for the global economy. According to the International Monetary Fund, in 2013, emerging economies made up a higher proportion of the world’s collective GDP (adjusted for ...

European settlement during the colonial era had a positive effect on today's per capita income, a study by William Easterly, a professor in NYU's Department of Economics, and Ross Levine, a professor ...