The show's starting point is the historical moment when the power of the camera shifted and it became a means of self-representation rather than a way of presenting colonial power and wealth.
With its gorgeous colonial old town, wealth of luxurious and romantic five-star hotels, UNESCO-attested cliff top fortresses, bustling shopping streets, energetic nightlife laden with Spring Breaker and local alike, and unrivaled access to the jungles and beaches of greater Puerto Rico, San Juan really is one of the most accomplished, all-round holiday destinations in the region.
France something of a mirror-image of Britain in terms of scale, fragile wealth, and colonial baggage, at least when seen from Cairo is a master at this last strategy.
This marked the foundation of a religious art movement that flourished throughout the Spanish colonial period, leaving a wealth of wooden polychrome sculpture and paintings unsurpassed in the New World.
Those, like Britain, with a wealth of colonial experiences to draw on know that there are basic psychological and practical consequences to occupying rather than "liberating and leaving" a subject people.
With a wealth of colonial experience behind him, he was wheeled out of retirement in 1977 to oversee the transition to black majority rule in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), arriving in the country in full dress uniform.
While the erudite lawyer made his long walk to freedom much of the rest of the continent was settling into a different form of apartheid in which local, post-colonial elites were accruing wealth and power that would permanently separate them from the rest of their populations.
The latest eruption of Tunisia's inner provinces, forgotten for decades, if not centuries since the Beylical pre-colonial era, which centralised wealth and power in the hands of urban notables in the capital, then in the coastal regions under Bourguiba and Ben Ali, is a warning call to the political class as a whole: that democracy is not only a set of elections, parties or parliament.
Varying degrees of colonial impact, modernizing influences, and wealth and income add other shades to the cultural mosaic.
Those seemingly inexhaustible forests, the most important source of wealth in the colonial period, were the great resource, a help-yourself raw material.
