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North American Human Social Groupings

human beings approach all of life. Defining and describing this change precisely is not an easy task. As Laslett points out, no ea...

First Canadian Settlers

morning activities were done with the use of candles for the most part, though some likely had oil lanterns as well. Any candles t...

Poverty Articles by Paul Collier and David Dollar and David Slater and Morag Bell Reviewed

if we look at where the aid is going is currently giving the greatest poverty relief to the South East Asian area and the least to...

1750 to 1790 Colonial America and the Adoption of 'Revolutionary Habits'

operating "mills, tanneries, blacksmith shops, forges, and other community services in connection with their plantation enterprise...

Strong Colonial Frontier Establishment

grow and produce goods they found themselves with great products worthy of selling overseas. In addition, the East Coast was a coa...

King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild and Imperialism

Western European nations and the US condone imperialism, in the first place; however, the people, at the time, who supported King ...

American Workers, Colonial Power

of 3,450 Filipina/os, roughly 3,200 were men (Fujita-Rony, 2003, p. 134). This is not surprising, as it was a pattern for Asian m...

Possible Scenarios for Settlement in Colonial America

settled the Chesapeake the reasons were not so simple or peaceful. One author provides us the following in relationship to the rea...

Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe and Modernity v. Tradition Discourses

come together as one to protect the land during times of war (Olaniyan 22, Lindfors 23). Ezeulu was the arrow of god because the ...

David Weber/Barbaros

A 3 page book review on David Weber's text Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. This comprehensive t...

Jane Tomkin/"Indians"

Indians, but rather how scholarship can lead an historian to this answer. What is her conclusion to this overriding issue? Over...

Distinctive Colonial Societies in the New World

Europeans would own the land and be in charge. But again, things were not simple. The intricacies of the changes which did occur d...

Bahamian Immigration Policy

are considerable. There is no personal income tax, no capital gains tax, no "corporate earnings tax, sales tax, estate or inherita...

Racism in Othello

seem that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio, the man that Othello favored for promotion over Iago. Convinced that Desdemon...

Daniel K, Richter's Facing East from Indian Country

text prologue, Richter observes, "The emergence of an aggressively expansionist Euro-American United States... is a problem to be ...

Power Justification

The ruler was seen as Gods representative on earth and his use of absolute power was justified by his receiving the right to rule ...

Slavery in Colonial America and Racism

Europeans were conquerors. They wanted land and they needed slaves to build the country economically. It is also interesting to no...

A Review of Season of Migration to the North

more. The narrator is returning from an extended trip to Europe where he studied in European schools and became conversant with E...

Post-Colonialism and the Poems of Bhatt and Das

of the least attractive aspects of a nations character. However, after a country has been a colony for a time, that state of being...

Cultural Changes in Early America

than it was in the former. Likewise, women actually had more rights in indigenous American cultures than they did in European cu...

Kincaid's "On Seeing England for the First Time" - A Post-Colonial Analysis

she felt marginalized within her own home - her thesis is that the reality of England is a far cry from the symbolic value it take...

Freedom and Liberty

When people think of America they often envision a powerful level of freedom and liberty. Benjamin Franklin once stated "Where lib...

Colonial Latin America and Manifest Destiny

In five pages this paper examines colonial Latin American and the impact of manifest destiny related to the Spanish conquest and t...

Depiction of Indians and Puritans in Captivity and Restoration by Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

In seven pages this paper examines how Puritans and Indian captors are portrayed by Mary Rowlandson in her early colonial memoir o...

Native Americans/Preserving Independence

did improve British relations with Native Americans, the colonials were irate, as they saw the entire point of the French and Indi...

Catholic Church: Colonial Times to Present Day

Mississippi valleys and later in the Spanish regions of Florida, the Southwest and California, Catholics were a decided minority i...

Thomas Paine's 'Common Sense' Pamphlet

the style the writing. This pamphlet was phrased in language which was understandable by the common man (Kashatus 53). In this hi...

The Impact of Religion on Women in Post-Colonial Literature

minority writers are rife with issues of postcolonial interest. It is commonly held that the literature of colonial societies refl...

A View of Life in Colonial America

was soon culturally established as a center for "moral guidance" in the lives of New England colonists. 2.) Why did slavery grow...

Colonial Women’s Public Role and Legal Status

formal education or technical training, women would be hired. The obvious vocational choices were extensions of their housekeepin...