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Contents

Examples
1Colonialism
2Cultural intersections and appropriation
Clothing and regalia
3The clothing of colonialism
4Lala Deen Dayal: Album of 37 photographs (1887-1888)
Human zoos
5Introduction to human zoos
Events
6G.W. Lawrie: Imperial Delhi Durbar (1911)
Access to resources
7The Congo Atrocities
8Bourne & Shepherd: India: Tea cultivation in Assam
9Tea plantation in the vicinity of Fuzhou, Fujian, China
10Luis Boudat Ducollier: Album de las Salitreras de Tarapaca (1889)
11South Africa: Diamond mining areas around Kimberley and Griqualand-West
12Introduction to rubber
Wars and colonialism
13Indian Mutiny (1858): Introduction
14Second Chinese Opium War (1856-1860): Introduction
15Felice Beato: Korean Punitive Expedition (1871)
16Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880)
17Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
18Anglo-Egyptian War (1882): Bombardment of Alexandria (1882)
19Felice Beato: Khartoum Relief Expedition (1884-1885)
20Luigi Naretti: Eritrea (1885-1900)
21Anglo-Zanzibar War (27 August 1896)
22Boer War (1899-1902)
The Native-American context
23Native Americans and their control of their representation
Conclusions
24Colonialism: Decolonial methodologies and Conclusions

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