Russia now controls far less land in Ukraine than it did one month into the war.

In other words, he wasn’t an outlier. He was student

Thank you. Without too much of a spoilers Leopold got his main ideas on how a company can exploit colonies from the Dutch and British East India companies. Big difference was the much more developed media and civil society ecosystem in th 1890s vs 1700s. Much harder to hide massacres, famines etc

Admittedly I am biased as I am writing a book on Congo which I hope will rectify these issues! But seriously, Congo’s story has long suffered from inadequate historical rigour. Empire challenges lazy history elsewhere. Congo deserves the same!

Big fan of the show but this one commits errors you rightly call out in histories of India. You a) conflate Congo Free State and Belgian Congo when they are different in key ways b) rely 100% on Adam H for the CFS. His book is good but very flawed c) you seem to know nothing about Belgian history!

Indeed. I argue in the book for a limited farming of cattle in the SA context

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