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Hace 1 día · Contemporary illustration of the 1868 Washita massacre by the 7th Cavalry against Black Kettle's band of Cheyennes, during the American Indian Wars. Violence and conflict with colonists were also important causes of the decline of certain Indigenous American populations since the 16th century. Population figures for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas prior to European colonization have ...
Hace 3 horas · Cortes's letters to Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, provide valuable insights into his expeditions and the early days of Spanish colonization in the Americas. His role in the introduction of horses to the Americas changed the landscape of the continent, affecting the mobility and warfare tactics of indigenous peoples.
Hace 3 horas · From Black agrarianism (McCutcheon 2019) to maroon geographies across the Americas (Bledsoe 2017; Winston 2021; Moulton 2023) and negotiations in and through the plantation’s afterlives (Purifoy 2021; Bruno 2023), from political activities in Europe (Hawthorne 2022) to respite and joy (Allen 2020), use of Black Geographies and the Black Outdoors invite revolutionary considerations of the ...
Hace 3 horas · Abstract. Humboldt embodies the wide-ranging curiosity and fascination with nature shared by eminent nature writers of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century. In fact, he greatly influenced British and North American writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Darwin, George Perkins Marsh, Clarence King, and John Muir ...
Hace 3 horas · Africans, forcibly brought to the Americas through the transatlantic slave trade, faced brutal conditions, particularly in plantation areas where they remained under the harsh yoke of slavery. Both groups were essential to the colonial economy, primarily through their labor contributions in agriculture, mining, and infrastructure projects.
