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In 1956 a plant to grant independence to the Congo was published by Jef van Bilsen's , it was called Plan de trente ans pour...

In Africa France and Belgium and to a lesser extent the United States thought it would be easier prop up often corrupt pro-western...

It really depends on several factors. Firstly how "strong" the colonial power is economically and militarily and how repressive they are...

The number of Catholic eligible princes was quite small indeed, the children of Augustus III of Poland (Frederick Augustus II of Saxony)...

Very much this as their support was not universal, and some of it waned as increased taxation to pay for the war against Spain and some...

Argentina, or rather what became Argentina was a very peripheral territory of seemingly little value. Northeastern Brazil, most notably...

It's hard to say, but it might depend on external pressure. The big key would have been to be more flexible than the old guard of the...

Very much this, despite the size of British North America it had several geographic disadvantages. Firstly, there were only two ice-free...

The French Canadians did face quite a bit of discrimination in New England and there were even theories that they were flooding Maine to...

Between the 1850s and 1920s Canada also lost a huge amount of migrants to the United States, not only Canadian-born individuals, but...

An Iberian Union would have been easy to avoid, but at the time the rulers of Portugal actively sought a union of the crowns for their...

My guess is that once land is reached, there will be further exploration of the Antilles. Sailings from Lisbon towards the Canaries and...

A simple one would be to start with textiles, at the time Pernambuco was the principal cotton producing state, and Recife was the...