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Brooks Holcomb wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 4 years, 4 months ago
Q: How does the Haitian Constitution reconcile its ideals of liberty and freedom with the formation of an Empire led by a singular monarch?
The Haitian constitution unsurprisingly emphasizes freedom and […]
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Brooks Holcomb commented on the post, The Truth of the Aztec Religion, on the site Colonial Latin America 4 years, 5 months ago
I think this is a great research topic, because I’ve always wondered about the reality of the Aztec religion in particular, since in a lot of modern and historical descriptions it’s depicted as excessively violent […]
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Brooks Holcomb commented on the post, Research, on the site Colonial Latin America 4 years, 5 months ago
I like this idea a lot. I think it would be really interesting to contemplate the motivations behind native peoples aiding the Spanish and Portugese in their colonial ambitions, and how well they understood the […]
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Brooks Holcomb commented on the post, Sources and Ideas, on the site Colonial Latin America 4 years, 5 months ago
I think this is a really cool idea. I’d definitely be interested to see the evolution of how maps of the Americas evolved as more land was ‘discovered’ by Europeans, and how it advanced to include the larger land […]
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Brooks Holcomb wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 4 years, 5 months ago
My research will focus on the independence movements in the viceroyalties of New Granada and Peru leading up to, during and following the Napoleonic Wars and the invasion of Spain in Europe. I want to mostly focus […]
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Brooks Holcomb wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 4 years, 6 months ago
My first idea for a research question is: how did new national identities emerge from the Spanish colonial viceroyalties of Latin America prior to and during the Napoleonic Wars, and what motivated the large-scale […]
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Brooks Holcomb wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 4 years, 6 months ago
This semester, I want to learn more in general about Latin America and the history of its colonial past – I have never really taken a history class that covered this area of the world and its past in depth, d […]
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Brooks Holcomb became a registered member 4 years, 7 months ago