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Jake Cohen wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 5 years ago
What evidence was there to suggest there was a population concern in Haiti?
For starters in 1779 there were 7,055 people of color in Saint-Domingue. A mere eight years later there were almost 20,000. This means […]
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Jake Cohen wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 5 years ago
-Today we looked at the question of how natural history texts can be looked at as colonial knowledge. First we talked about the Columbian exchange and how it was consequentially harsher on the new world than the […]
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Jake Cohen commented on the post, Sources and Ideas, on the site Colonial Latin America 5 years ago
Shoutout geography on this one! I think it would be cool to see if you can find multiple maps from indigenous perspectives seeing what scale of the land they had around them. Cool to compare how these would look […]
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Jake Cohen commented on the post, Revised Research Idea, on the site Colonial Latin America 5 years ago
An under represented topic I believe. Very cool idea. I think it would be cool to try to see how much music pre-contact has survived today. As well as seeing the music scene in Latin America today and whether it […]
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Jake Cohen commented on the post, Revised Research, on the site Colonial Latin America 5 years ago
For this topic I think it would be cool to examine Dona Marina. Was someone such as herself, who aided the Europeans, forced to abide by such gender norms? Or was she more exempt from conforming due to willingness […]
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Jake Cohen wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 5 years ago
Diving deeper into the topic of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, I want to specifically look at indigenous population help. Whether this be through Dona Marina or other tribes helping to overthrow the Aztecs. I […]
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Jake Cohen wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years ago
My research question I want to dive deeper into revolves around the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs. Military history has always been the sub-section of history I’ve been most fascinated with. So my potential […]
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Jake Cohen wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America 6 years ago
During this semester there are some specific topics I’d like to learn. One of the main ones that interests me is the military conquest of the Europeans and how the natives fought back. Perhaps we’d learn more […]
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