As Gourlay wrote, this is a book about first contact, with the additional complexity of Samkad’s soul being tied to a young orphaned Bontok boy who was raised down the mountains among Tagalog-speakers. There are concentric circles of identity at play here, and that is a very appropriate ...
Perhaps it would be more accurate to suggest that it does not matter a great deal whether the USA is called imperialist or not; the term is open to such a wide range of interpretations that the decison as to whether the US role in the world is best described as imperialist becomes ...
WORLD HISTORY Monday October 13 SKILL WORK – None True or False: Nationalism could best be described as total devotion to the promotion and protection of one’s own nation above all other nations or interests. Unit 3: Nationalism to Imperialism Historical Globalization Make it a Great Da...
At age fifty-two, Liliuokalani had already governed the islands as regent during her brother's long absences. She was well qualified to take control of the government. An American newspaper reporter who interviewed the new queen described her as "strong and resolute. Her manner was dignified, ...
TheEuropeanswere motivated to embark on voyages for discovery had manymotives. One motivation was to find the fantastic lands described in works such as the Travels of Mandeville and the legends of the magical kingdom of Prester John. Columbus even took a copy of Marco Polos Travels with him...
Paradoxically, it’s the so-called Age of Enlightenment that rationalised the rise of industrial capitalism. It was, after all, the philosopher Hobbes, who described the human body as if it were nothing more than a machine: “Life is but a motion of limbs… For what is the heart, but ...
the end. Overall I would recommend this game to people and have given it as a gift before. But the bottom line is that with just a small fix this could have been a true giant of a game. --pity-- It has such great moments but be ready to face the cruel fate of the counsel. ...
As Margaret notes, “Henry had implied his business rather than described it, and the formlessness and vagueness that one associates with Africa itself had hitherto brooded over the main sources of his wealth.” While the means by which Henry extracts his enormous fortune from Africa are never...
But whatever difference of opinion may have existed as to the best method of opposing a colonial policy, there never was any difference as to the great importance of the question and there is no difference now as to the course to be pursued. The title of Spain being extinguished we were ...
And that is always like a tectonic shift of the crust of the earth. That is a rough and tumble experience. It always has been. The Spanish, the British, the Dutch. I mean, those empires as they crumbled, as they clashed with one another. There was lots of violence. There was lots ...