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What Happened When a King Personally Owned the Congo? - The Institutional Machinery of European Empire | Sleepy Facts About History
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The maps we inherited from European empires show clean colors and straight borders, but they conceal a more complex reality about how imperial power actually functioned. European colonialism was not a single, uniform process of expansion, but a series of fundamentally different institutional experiments. This episode examines three distinct forms of imperial machinery to understand how their specific designs shaped the daily lives of colonized peoples, the violence required to sustain…
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