Feeding America

Gilles Havard’s article “Protection” and “Unequal Alliance”: The French Conception of Sovereignty over Indians in New France describes the way Indigenous people living in New France were perceived by the French authorities, the degree of citizenship that Indigenous people were given, and how these concepts of sovereignty affected the Indigenous communities both positively and negatively. In France, citizens were considered “regnicoles” (Havard, 2013) – citizens who had the full breadth of the…

On October 12, 1492 , Christopher Columbus landed on an island which is now considered part of the Caribbean. He was met with a strange group of people he assumed were from eastern India, thus he called them Indians. However, he would come to learn very quickly that this land was not India, but a whole new world yet discovered by his people. Columbus would go on to introduce European technology, plants, animals, and even diseases with the new world. He would also take not only the new world…

nation-state model and tried to extend their borders and influence. The United States was an unstable new republic, and whatever was left of the Americas was controlled by the European empires. Imperial extension would not go unchallenged. But, by the 1900, the United States and Canada had enveloped the rest of the North American landmass, and a large portion of Latin America would break free from European rule. Utilizing the ideals of popular sovereignty, free enterprise, industrial…

Plymouth, a Colony to be Remembered In the 1600’s, England was settling in what is now known as North America. They came for political and economical reasons with the intent to colonize. England had two settlements in the New World, Plymouth and Jamestown, that were particularly successful in their own ways. But, overall, which one was more successful? If success means achieving the goal they had set before them, than Plymouth was the more successful colony because of the choice of settlers who…

Though the meaning of “America” has changed over the years, “America” once meant the pursuit of a simplistic yet unique dream. Walt Whitman demonstrates this in section 10 of his “Song of Myself” poem. In this section, he takes on the identity of multiple American people. Among these are a rugged mountain man, the captain of a Yankee clipper ship, the viewer of a marriage between a trapper and a Native American, and one who shelters a runaway slave. These people are all different, which serves…

In this essay, I will be summarizing James Fujitani's argument regarding the rejection of the Ming with the Portuguese effort to establish diplomatic relations in 1519. Back in 1517, the Portuguese fleet arrived off the coast of Guangzhou. This was a great moment of symbolic importance to the Portuguese, with making the first official contact between the East Asia and Europe of the early modern period. However, just a few years later, in 1521, these relations broke down by many false rumor…

The American dream We travelled on a wagon and boarded a ship to America in England. I am here with my grandmother, my mom, my dad and my two younger brothers. We wanted to come to the USA because we were promised a better life in the USA and my grandparents on my mother’s side lives there. They promised us freedom, happiness and wealth in the USA. My family and I are only allowed a small suitcase, so we had to leave many of our favorite things behind. The ship is really overcrowded and it…

Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel amongst the Heathen” was founded and in 1793 William Carey and John Thomas sailed to India. Following Carey’s model of missionary society a number of missionary societies emerged in England, Europe and America that sent their missionaries to Asia, Africa and to different places. In England the London Missionary Society (LMS) (1795), Netherland’s Missionary Society (NMS) (1798), Church Missionary Society (CMS) (1799), Religious Tract Society…

As Europeans went through the rise of the Ottoman Empire they had to find new ways to gain wealth and power. As the Ottomans Empire grew Europeans wanted to spread their culture as well. All these cause started the age of exploration of Europeans sailing out to the sea to find out new trading routes, building trading posts along there way expanding their territory, converting people into their culture , it gained back wealth and power to compete with the ottoman Empire. Also influencing the…

continent. Ships from Spain, England, and France sailed westward in search for the Northwest Passage, and though the Europeans were unable to expand their riches with trade, they were able to expand their riches through conquering civilizations in the Americas. Mercantilism was the dominating economic idea of the time,…