Nonetheless, the colonial legacy still haunts former colonial empires and their erstwhile colonies.
After the United Nations conference, Du Bois published Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace, a book that attacked colonial empires and, in the words of one reviewer, "contains enough dynamite to blow up the whole vicious system whereby we have comforted our white souls and lined the pockets of generations of free-booting capitalists".
What about the 19th century colonial empires?
Over time these European trading companies developed into colonial empires.
By this standard, Greece, Rome, and the colonial empires were inferior.
The forced assimilation of indigenous peoples was particularly common in the European colonial empires of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
In a related context, the growth of colonial empires and improvements in transportation brought Europe into contact with many disparate cultures and their aesthetic traditions.
Instead, I omitted it because unlike so many criticisms of the old colonial empires, this one happens to be completely ahistorical.
Balkanization has occurred in places other than the Balkans, including Africa in the 1950s and '60s, following the dissolution of the British and French colonial empires there.
However, it found its central mission as a source of startup capital for states emerging from the demise of colonial empires.
In a career that paralleled the postwar disintegration of colonial empires in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Mr. Vergès rose to prominence in the late 1950s defending Algerians accused of terrorist bombings.
