The Empires
Six modern states, each a defendant on its own terms. Country profiles, audited.
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Belgium
The smallest of the empires, the highest per-capita kill rate. Leopold's private kingdom, then a state-run extractive colony.
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Britain
From the East India Company to the Mau Mau detention camps. The largest empire in history, audited.
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France
Saint-Domingue to Algeria to Indochina to West Africa — and the CFA franc that survives them all.
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Germany
South-West Africa, East Africa, Cameroon, Togoland, the Pacific. Short, brutal, a template for what came next.
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Netherlands
The VOC, the Banda massacre, three centuries in Indonesia, and apartheid's South African origins.
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United States
Manifest destiny, the Philippines, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, 750 overseas bases. Empire by another name.
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