Colonialism was a central part of an earlier form of globalisation. Also referred to as the ' first globalisation', this phenomenon of modernity, is justified by having said it brought various advances and progress to backward countries. Due to imperialist lack of long-term objectives and resources,...

The seizure of power in Germany and Italy by fascist movements in the 1920s and 1930s was based on a weak and inexperienced government and the humiliation of both countries by the winning powers (United States, France, and Great Britain) after the Great War. These totalitarian right wing movements f...

Somerset Maugham lived a long time, almost one hundred years. He lived to see the collapse of the great colonial empires, the rise of America, and to fly in an airplane. He seems to have taken it all in with his usual apathetic character. W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris as the sixth and younge...