Colonial concession companies like Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang) relied heavily on coercive labour systems to manage the high...

The Human Brain Owes Its Existence to a Prehistoric Pandemic Key points. A retroviral infection is responsible for evolution of...

This research explores how South Sudan’s current looming crisis is rooted in a century-long history of coercive and predatory revenue-raising...

We provide new spatial and historical data to overturn the common claims that (i) African borders were decided at the...

AI is more persuasive than humans, says new study We are increasingly seeking not just facts from AI, but opinions,...

How do trade booms affect labor in economies where multiple coercive labor systems coexist? Drawing on newly digitized census microdata...

What did economic and political power look like in the eighteenth century Cape Colony—and who held it? In our study...

PIM, DAM, and CMS are three distinct systems that manage different parts of an organization's content and product information. A...

How the Brain Maps Every Number A neuroimaging study led by cognitive neuroscientists at the INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit (Unicog)...

Who benefited from agricultural commercialization in colonial Africa? Using social tables for three African economies, we identify a small group...