Jacquie Pham's debut novel, “Those Opulent Days,” begins where many thrillers these days begin: with the site of a death, assumed to be a murder. Readers don't know, at first, who died — it ...

The colonial authorities in Hanoi viewed P Kodanda Rao’s visit as a serious threat to their rule in Cambodia and Vietnam.

People in Africa were burdened by colonial ... to most of the French colonies. In the same year Nigeria, the Gambia, Cameroun and Somalia became independent of British rule. Nigeria, because ...