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African countries that rely on France to print their currency
France’s influence in Africa is weakening, but it hasn’t disappeared. While political ties are fading, its economic grip ...
Orange County schools approve affordable housing for employees
Orange County School leaders approve affordable housing units for district personnel to address living cost challenges.
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Colonial Theatre among local recipients of rural economic development grants
The Colonial Theatre has received a nearly $500,000 grant for updating its marketing research, development and advertising ...
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France’s modern colonies: the CFA Franc System
The CFA franc (Franc des Colonies Francais d’Afrique) was introduced in 1945, well before France’s decolonization in the late 1950s, as a way for France to control the economies of its African ...
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Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Legal Challenges in the U.S. Territories
Women in the U.S. territories experience particularized harms often rooted in U.S. colonization and the territories’ political relationship with the United States. This Essay describes how traditional ...
‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’ Director: Our World’s Problems Go Well Beyond Trump and the Republicans
Grimonprez is his own eclectic mix. A cultural theorist preoccupied with mass media and fear; a fast-talking professorial ...
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The early roots of carnival? Research reveals evidence of seasonal celebrations in pre-colonial Brazil
An international team of scientists has tentatively found some of the earliest indications of alcoholic drink production in the Patos Lagoon region of Brazil. State-of-the-art analysis of pottery ...
Millions of Native people were enslaved in the Americas. Their story waits to be told.
The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...
The ‘degrowth’ movement envisions global climate justice, but must adapt to global south realities
Should the world’s less developed nations be part of the “degrowth” movement? The debate involves considerations of economic ...
The lesson of El Salvador’s failed Bitcoin experiment
El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment ends as IMF loans loom. There are significant implications for developing nations seeking ...
DRC: history is repeating itself in Lubumbashi as the world scrambles for minerals to go green
Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the ...
The three ex-British colonies that now use dollars instead of pounds
The Pound was the dominant international currency up until the 1940s but changes to the financial system and new trading treaties changed all that.