Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries British merchants, diplomats and soldiers attempted to break into China by a number of...

In the period between the conquest of Constantinople and the end of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire rapidly increased in...

Following the American Revolution, the new United States’ desire for more land was at the forefront of policy. Although the Indigenous...

The Spanish Empire at its height spanned most of the American continent, from California to the southernmost reaches of Chile, and...