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When the Chinese Exclusion Act barred most Chinese immigrants from entering the United States, many opted to instead settle within northern Mexico. Despite the harsh envi[...]

Among traditional European nations who often traded under national monopolies like the British and Dutch East India Companies, Americans were a citizenry who answered unt[...]

Until the end of Japan’s bubble economy in 1991, many Japanese people enjoyed living in an affluent economy. One of the popular pastimes many people, especially young urb[...]

The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was a strategic alliance between Great Britain and Japan that lasted from 1902 until both powers jointly denounced it in 1922. While the early[...]

In 1898, the United States intervened in conflicts between Spain and its colonial holdings in the Pacific Ocean. The nation rationalized its actions as a humanitarian mis[...]