The Pound was the dominant international currency up until the 1940s but changes to the financial system and new trading ...

The colonial economy was almost entirely dependent on sugar exports, supplemented by timber, bauxite and gold extraction. Sugar production created a land chronically vulnerable to flood and drought.

U.S. gasoline futures touched their highest levels in three months on Tuesday, after Colonial Pipeline, the largest U.S. fuel pipeline operator, said the main artery moving gasoline from the Gulf ...

NEW DELHI -- Does the United Kingdom owe reparations to India? Debate over that long-simmering question has been reignited by ...

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 ...