... Hamitic hypothesis myth King Solomon legend of portolans Prester John Sofala Van Wyk Smith Malvern Great Zimbabwe Seligman Charles Yoruba Africans ethnography Jews colonization What did people in the early medieval times really know about Africa and Africans? Almost nothing. Through...

... of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Photograph by the author. This chapter sets the stage for the rest of the book by considering the early years of colonization, Native American religious beliefs and practices, and the seventeenth-century attempts to evangelize Natives in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Long...

...This chapter deals with wars of colonization as a crucial means to the domination and subjugation of non-Europeans in the globalization of international society. Wars against non-Europeans had what Europeans regarded as the higher purpose of ‘civilizing’ peoples regarded as ‘savage’. Naming them...

... histories of industrialization, colonization, and the slave trade. It also explores Wright's use of timekeeping to tackle racism in America in terms of the social conditions imposed on African Americans by the dominant white society. Finally, the chapter explains the symbolic significance of the histories...

... relationships. It discusses the contributions of molecular genetics in determining the patterns of bat colonization and speciation by studying data gathered from various sampling sites. It investigates the interface between species-area relationships and community ecology by applying this to bats by analyzing...

...This chapter provides the background to applying “network” as a heuristic concept to historical interpretation. Greek colonization dotted the coasts of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea with distant settlements that served as network nodes; with greater distance came fewer degrees of separation...

...Rhodes represents a case of a “back-ripple effect” of Mediterranean networks, when overseas experiences and colonizing activities condensed the distinct poleis of the island into “Rhodian” ones long before the official synoikismos (unification and foundation...

...This chapter examines the factors that spurred the Greeks' colonizing movement. It shows that colonization in the eighth and seventh centuries was the cure not for the endemic evil of overpopulation but rather the epidemic woes of climatic disaster. It also suggests that colonization petered out...

... courtroom discourse elite English German judgment trial record Bakhtin Mikhail M borrowing heteroglossia language change language contact Africa Americas Asia assimilation colonization colony globalization imperialism legitimacy Merry Sally Engle Nebrija Elio Antonio de power rhetoric...

..., voluntary self-subjection of native people, and armed conquest. It discusses the role of commerce and trade in colonization. It also compares the idea of ownership between the two communities and how this led to conflict. Additionally, the chapter describes how the Articles of Confederation of the colonies...

... colonization. No book on Antarctic lakes would be complete without a mention of Lake Vida. In effect it is a small-scale subglacial system and could equally well be included in Chapter 6 on subglacial lakes. Lake Vida is a large lake situated in the Victoria Valley (see Figure 2.7...

... of “systematic colonization” aimed to protect the British capitalist civilization from social revolution at home and frontier barbarism in the colonies. Equating capitalist civilization with wage labor, Wakefield planned for the creation of a legally free yet structurally dependent colonial labor force...

... Europeans and Americans. Both institutional and Native discourses are examined to demonstrate how colonizing rhetoric and decolonizing rhetoric undergirded the early relationships preceding the Indian Removal Act of 1830. benevolence Great Britain Errand into the wilderness Metacom Powhatan Nation...

...Chapter Two examines colonizing U.S. governmental discourse surrounding the Indian Removal Act of 1830 by positioning it in the crucible of Jacksonian era ideologies. Specifically, the chapter contends that as the executive, legislative and judicial branches codified the removal policy...

...In late 1852, twenty-four year old Church Vaughan boarded a ship bound for Liberia. The vessel had been chartered by the American Colonization Society, an organization founded by white philanthropists and politicians to send African Americans “back” to Africa. As this chapter details, the Society’s...

... in their common interest in colonizing lands South of the South, Pickens seeking to strengthen the South’s hand in the looming battle over slavery, Delany looking simultaneously at possibilities for hemispheric revolt and a new colony for emancipated slaves. These narratives are situated against the backdrop...

...This chapter discusses Australian sovereignty. When compared to that of Canada and the United States of America, colonization came relatively late to the Indigenous peoples of Australia, who have never ceded sovereignty over the Indigenous countries that make up the Australia of the twenty-first...

.... It discusses how the antislavery sentiment was linked to the colonization movement in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries. It also provides an overview on the attitude of the Anglican Church toward slavery. A brief discussion on the Christianization of slavery is also presented. The chapter...

... northernmost colonial military outpost during 1776-1820, colonial settlers transformed their identities, rejecting the race-based Spanish colonial sistema de castas in favor of a shared Californio ethnicity. The case of ethnogenesis at the Presidio of San Francisco, in which colonized people...

... on colonization in the modern era, starting with France and moving overseas, and at the same time accounting for differences among them so that we are able to recognize that not all tones are of equal value and not all words correspond. The chapter asserts that variation exists, according to who utters the words...