What Is a Colony Before Colonialism? Humanist and Antihumanist Concepts of Governmentality from Foucault to MontaigneThis chapter explores writing by Renaissance humanists about colonies. It argues that before the emergence of the great imperial colonial projects in the late sixteenth century (undertaken...
What is a royal colony? Colonial government styles: Upon founding the colonies of North America, the British government allowed three styles of colonies: royal, proprietary, and charter, and all of these colonies were still subject to the crown directly or indirectly. Proprietary colonies were land...
Plantation colonialism was an early method of colonization in which settlers undertook the mass production of a single crop, such as cotton,tobacco, coffee, or sugar. In many cases, an underlying purpose of the plantation colonies was to impose Western culture and religion on nearby indigenous peo...
The use of a single-pound coin, or sovereign, began in 1489 under King Henry VII.2In addition to the United Kingdom, the British pound has served as currency in many colonies of the British Empire, including Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The U.K. is made up of England, Northern...
What Is an American ?1 by Michel-Guillaume de Crevecoeur Michel-Guillaume de Crevecoeur (1735-1813) was born in France and came to the American colonies as a military in the French army.2 He became a naturalized American and settled down to farming.3Between 1765 and 1780 he ...
In spite of their elevated phylogenetic position in the animal kingdom, ascidians have evolved a varied reproductive repertoire; some of them live as individuals (solitary ascidians), while others form colonies (colonial ascidians). Do ascidians have a notochord?
There are two major precedents for territorial secession in U.S. history. The first began with the American colonies declaringindependencefrom Britain. The Declaration of Independence frames its arguments in terms of universal rights rather than British law.19In practice, the colonies won their indepe...
We conclude that complex multicellular organisms and colonies of eusocial insects satisfy these three criteria, but that, in most cases (with at least one notable exception), colonies of modular organisms and genetic chimeras do not. While species do not meet these criteria, they may meet the ...
Individual corals are known as coral polyps; each is a single animal.In isolation a coral polyp looks very similar to a sea anemone, but unlike sea anemones, which live separated from each other, corals form colonies.A few species remain solitary, but in most cases, new polyps bud off th...
What Is the Olive Branch Petition? The Olive Branch Petition was a last-ditch effort to prevent war between Britain and the American colonies. Urged by moderates in the Continental Congress and adopted on July 5, 1775, the petition pledged loyalty to King George III while restating the colonis...