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Katie Holt commented on the post, Potential Research, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 6 months ago

Music is a great way to explore cultural change and hybrid identities. What instrument/musical style most interests you?
For a theoretical perspective, […]
Katie Holt commented on the post, Research, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 6 months ago

Mapuche cultural resistance and autonomy is a great topic.
robby wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 6 years, 6 months ago

Imperialism changed Eastern Asia as we know it. Western Europe’s influence created a vacuum in power as they profited off of a weakening China. This void filled by a growing Japan that wanted to separate itself f […]
Katie Holt commented on the post, Research Question Ideas, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 6 months ago

This is a great research question! Take a look at the intro/early documents in the Haitian Revolution primary source reader we’re reading at the end of the semester to get started. Or for a legal perspective, […]
Abby wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 6 months ago

The class discussion for 9/18 was focused on early colonial perspectives as the two groups we have been studying up to this point, the Iberians and the indigenous peoples of Latin America had recently met. The […]
Katie Holt commented on the post, Ideas, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 6 months ago

The history of cartography is a great idea! There are some great articles to get you started here: https://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/HOC_V3_Pt1/Volume3_Part1.html
Katie Holt commented on the post, Research Blog Post, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 6 months ago

You’ll have a lot of great sources for Aztec / Spanish military encounters this week in class. Make sure you’re not posing your question as a counterfactual, but instead thinking about what role the support of […]
Katie Holt commented on the post, Research Question Idea, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 6 months ago

This is a great question, if you focus on the growth of local anti-colonial movements in the years leading up to independence. Your next step is to focus on a particular geographical region/independence movement. […]
jrichard wrote a new post on the site The Nature of Nature 2019 6 years, 6 months ago

ThoreauThis guy really grinds my gears. I don’t know if it is how conceded he is, or if it is the fact that he is a decent writer at times in spite of […]
Katie Holt commented on the post, Research Question, on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years, 6 months ago

I’d like to encourage you to move forward with the Argentine question: I think you’ll get more out of your research, and enjoy it more, if you pick a topic that is personally meaningful to you.
Depending on […]
Jonathan Velazquez wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 6 years, 6 months ago

East Asia was deeply destabilized by the experience of empire, at least regarding the status quo of China and Japan both having been power players in the region around the late 19th century. As discussed in […]
Cameron Papp wrote a new post on the site The Nature of Nature 2019 6 years, 6 months ago

What Humans Leave Behind (In the Thicket of Thoreau)“As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under […]
Abby Fisk wrote a new post on the site The Nature of Nature 2019 6 years, 6 months ago

In the Thicket of Thoreau“I had gone down to the woods for other purposes. But, wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if […]
Eliza Letteney wrote a new post on the site The Nature of Nature 2019 6 years, 6 months ago

In the Thicket of ThoreauIn economy, there is a section that sticks out to me. After detailing the money he spent on materials to build his temporary house on Walden, he […]
Dillon Chipman wrote a new post on the site The Nature of Nature 2019 6 years, 6 months ago

Husbandry“Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art, but it is pursued by irreverent haste and heedlessness by […]
Alex Pollitt wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 6 years, 6 months ago

This week we discussed, read, and learned about East Asia in the 20th century. Since the Qing was now falling in China, Japan began to take over and soon was in complete control. After being relatively isolated […]
Stacey Sam wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 6 years, 6 months ago

With the growing importance of trade around the 1850s, Japan ended its era of isolationism and moved unto trade and imperialism. Mutshito gaining rule after the military dictatorship of the shoguns who were […]
Shahroz Zaman wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 6 years, 6 months ago

East Asia in the 20th century was a continent dominated by a westernized, aggressive and nationalist Japan. This week we learned of the last dynasty of China, the Qing and the factors that led to their downfall […]
ibuckley wrote a new post on the site The Nature of Nature 2019 6 years, 6 months ago

Ah Romanticism…“When I think of acquiring for myself one of our luxurious dwellings, I am deterred, for, so to speak, the country is not yet adapted to h […]
Andrew Baeder wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 6 years, 6 months ago

From our discussion last week on Friday we can see there are people who see the reformation and modernization on Japan to be a good thing. In the end that can be said with decent certainty but that of course is […]
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