Queen Elizabeth II and colonialism

Queen Elizabeth II's Colonial Legacy and the Future | TIME

The death of Elizabeth II signifies in very particular ways that she was the symbol of an empire built on genocide, slavery, violence, extraction, and ...

Queen Elizabeth II Wasn't Innocent of Her Empire's Sins

The late queen incarnated and ably helped sell her nation and its system while never criticizing or apologizing for its past.

Queen Elizabeth II and colonialism, explained by an expert on ... - Vox

The questions over the queen's role in Britain's violent empire, explained by a historian. An expert on the British Empire explains “Her Majesty's government” ...

Queen Elizabeth II's death reignites conversations about colonial ...

Elizabeth was associated with colonial and de-colonized Britain. The memory of Elizabeth is complicated by the fact that during her rule, more ...

Queen Elizabeth's death revives criticism of Britain's legacy of ...

While Elizabeth ruled as Britain navigated a post-colonial era, she still bore a connection to its colonial past, which was rooted in racism and ...

Setting record straight on Queen Elizabeth II - Harvard Gazette

The colonial legacy of Queen Elizabeth II, who presided over the wrap-up of the British Empire, is a thorny aspect of the seven decades of an ...

Cloud of colonialism hangs over Queen Elizabeth's legacy in Africa

As colonialism later crumbled and gave way to independence and self-rule in what had been British overseas territories, the former colonies ...

Queen Elizabeth, Colonization, and Global Perceptions - AAIHS

He stated, “England giv' me gun and soldier clothes. I tell you, mon, that day they giv' me that I would have killed ten black mon to save one ...

The queen could have redressed Britain's colonial sins. She didn't.

And as the British colonies secured their independence, Queen Elizabeth II was in the unique position to explicitly distance herself from ...

'I cannot mourn': Former colonies conflicted over Queen Elizabeth ...

Elizabeth's reign saw the hard-won independence of African countries from Ghana to Zimbabwe, along with a string of Caribbean islands and ...

The Queen has left her mark around the world. But not all see it as ...

Indeed, she became Queen while on a royal visit to Kenya in 1952. After she left, the colony descended into one of the worst conflicts of the ...

People in former colonies conflicted over Queen Elizabeth's legacy ...

People in former colonies conflicted over Queen Elizabeth's legacy, Britain's colonial past ... Some say celebrations of the queen's life have ...

We must speak the ugly truths about Queen Elizabeth and Britain's ...

Her image is on the currencies of many former colonies; by stewarding the British Commonwealth, she willingly took on the symbolic, patronizing ...

'Crowning the Coloniser': Elizabeth and Charles, 1952-Present | MBC

In 1952, she became Queen, not just of the UK but of Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Pakistan, Ceylon, and a vast colonial empire.

Whitewashing Queen Elizabeth's legacy won't save the monarchy

She was the last colonial queen, in whose name unspeakable acts were undertaken even after the formal end of colonialism, when the playbook of ...

Elizabeth II, the queen of Britain's post-colonial influence - Le Monde

The monarch still ruled over 15 states, including Canada, Australia, Jamaica and the Bahamas, and was head of the Commonwealth, which brings together 56 ...

Queen Elizabeth, colonialism and land: ghosts of the past still haunt ...

The British empire brought the practice of commons enclosure to Africa to claim land. Its effects continue today at sites like the Liesbeek ...

The ignorance of Queen Elizabeth's 'anti-colonialist' critics

“Part of her legacy is that colonization. It is the atrocities that were committed in the name of Queen or country during the colonizing period.

Celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's Death Isn't Disrespectful ...

Celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's Death Isn't Disrespectful, Colonialism Is ... In this op-ed, news & politics editor Lexi McMenamin considers how ...

Colonialism key part of Queen Elizabeth II's legacy for Cape Cod ...

the monarchy has affected people in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as in 56 countries around the world that were — at one time — colonized by ...