Colonialism

A data-driven look at which European powers colonized the most land, for the longest time, and what the numbers reveal about the structure of empire.

Explores how Egypt’s status as a wartime creditor to Britain became a mechanism of post-colonial wealth extraction, freezing capital that could have funded industrialization.

Presents the central counterfactual model: what £400 million compounded to 1970 would have yielded if released in 1945, compared to Egypt’s actual receipts, quantifying the scale of the trap.

Analyzes the post-war negotiations, the 1951 devaluation losses, and the political leverage Britain used to keep Egyptian capital locked in London while extracting real resources.

Examines the accumulation of sterling balances during WWII, the political economy of British military expenditure in Egypt, and the legal fiction that turned a creditor nation into a supplicant.

An investigation into the systemic transformation of climate fluctuations into human holocausts through imperial policy and greed.

Evaluating the long-term impact of colonial extraction, from the 1899 crisis to the systemic erosion of Indian life expectancy.

Modeling the role of British grain traders and Indian moneylenders in facilitating wealth transfer during mass mortality.

Reconstructing the "Temple Wage" experiment and the pseudo-scientific rationing that turned relief camps into death traps.

Analyzing the 1876-78 famine through the prism of Lord Lytton’s imperial pageantry and Laissez-faire dogma.