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The discourse of post-colonialism starts with the publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism, a Palestinian-American critic, in 1978. He is the very first to write about how the West perceives and manipulates the knowledge of the East. According to him, the Europeans considered the Orientals a lower form of human beings. They considered it their duty to civilize them because they their selves did not have the knowledge of good and bad. In order to achieve this goal, they had to colonize and rule…

Two very important people during this time were Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. Both had very different viewpoints on a strong government, Alexander Hamilton favored it while Thomas Jefferson opposed it. Alexander Hamilton grew up having no money or family connections while Thomas Jefferson was very talented as a child and acquired his fathers land later on in life. Hamilton dreamed of national greatness, which depended on a strong economy. He wanted to expand the economy and increase…

colonies, including cochineal, the most valuable export after silver. Many European countries were envious of Spain’s success and engaged in espionage and piracy in order to gain a portion of the precious dyestuff. Spanish ships became targets for British navy and pirate ships. Obtaining the dyestuff would result in immense riches, but the “ability to steal cochineal from Spanish ships – and to make use of it in their own industries – was a point of immense patriotic pride” (118). Others…

exemplified by the relations between Britain and the American colonies prior to the Declaration of Independence, the colonists relied heavily for help and support on their British colleagues. But, this relationship fell apart as their alliance turned sour and they eventually turned against each other. As Pestalozzi and the British-American conflict demonstrate, man cannot rely on others, but must rely on himself. This reinforces Emerson’s idea of individuality to display that man must rely on…

large amount of historical data about two major opposing sides in the American revolution. He portrayed the British as the courageous ‘red coats’ and portrayed the American’s as the ‘rebels’. His work is complied in twenty-five short paragraphs, divided into three parts each in chronological order. Christopher Hibbert, wrote this narrative of history; primary from the loyalist and the British point of view on the American revolution, by collecting a vast amount of history from various…

were important, none were as important as the Boston Massacre on March 5th, 1770. On that night, British soldiers opened fired on a mob of protesting colonials, killing three and wounding eight. This violent and malicious act against innocent colonists helped to show the people of the colonies that the British would never let them go peacefully, and that the only way to escape the grasp of the British empire was through revolution. On March 5th, 1770, colonial…

When President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803, he made a decision that would forever alter the destiny of the United States – something Jefferson was acutely aware of at the time. Although beneficial to the growth of the young nation, the deal was highly controversial within the United States when signed, as Jefferson had seemingly overstepped his executive boundaries as established by the Constitution. Neither the acquisition of such a vast tract of land…

communication, the need and want to rebel, and the sweet idea of independence. There were tensions between the American colonies and the British Empire. However, there were also large issues that put not only the colonies against Britain, but the colonies against the people..I believe that the colonial people turned a corner where the only answer was war. British Officers were harsh,people were being overtaxed, and unfair Acts passed by Parliament were becoming overwhelming. Perceptions of…

The practice of scalping, the removal of the scalp from the head often to be used as a trophy, has long been one of the most enigmatic, contentious, and startling elements of early American history. Often distorted by Anglo-Saxon ethnocentrism, understandings of scalping, both past and present, have most commonly presented the practice as the embodiment of Indian savagery and cruelty. Much more than evidence of Indian warfare’s barbarism, however, scalping was a vital part of the nuanced and…

Plantations and slaves experienced drastic changes between the 1800’s and 1860’s due to a plethora of national level deviations resulting in a divided nation. First, the use of slave labor to produce crops from 1800 to 1850 saw a drastic spike with the amount of states employing this method almost doubling from eight to fifteen ( ). Second, with the abolitionist anti-slavery movement happen there was a drastic shift to free all slaves in the United States ( ). Consequently, the radical changes…