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their own needs, not for sale and profit, and that Europeans thought it wrong to ‘own’ the land, could not understand this. In and native Americans... |
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links east and west coasts frontier ThelandscapesofAmericachangeddrasticallyinthenineteenthcentury. The Europeans treated the land differently from... |
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by the British after a war with France. The French settlers repeatedly demanded autonomous political status. It was only in 1867 that this problem ... |
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the land occupied by the tribes justified it by saying the natives did not deserve to occupy land which they did not use to the maximum. They went ... |
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murmur is the voice of my father’s father…’ The Gold Rush, and the Growth of Industries There was always the hope that there was gold in North Amer... |
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was complete. The area between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans was divided up into states. There no longer remained the ‘frontier’ that had pulled ... |
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grim picture of the terribly poor health and education facilities for natives in reservations. White Americans felt sympathy for the natives who we... |
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of the (rationalisation – ‘Slavery is part of American their own social system’, black Revolution were people are inferior) exactly opposite to tho... |
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though it began nearly 300 years later. Initial reports from Captain Cook and his crew about encounters with natives are enthusiastic about their f... |
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continued it in Australia. Most of the early settlers were convicts who had been deported from England and, when their jail term ended, were allowe... |
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a lecture by the anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner, entitled ‘The Great Australian Silence’ – the silence of historians abouttheaborigines.Fromthe1970s... |
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no treaties with the natives formalising the takeover of land by Europeans. The government had always termed the land of Australia terra nullius, t... |
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the Hopi tribe, and narrate their conversation. Reprint 2026-27 |
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THEME Paths to Modernisation 7 EAST ASIA at the beginning of the nineteenth century was dominated by China. The Qing dynasty, heir to a long tradit... |
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dominated by Western colonialism. Japanese expansion was justified by the call to resist Western domination and liberate Asia. The rapid developmen... |
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writings of Christian missionaries in the nineteenth century whose work provides valuable material for our understanding of these countries. Schola... |
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(Huang He), the Yangtse River (Chang Jiang – the third longest river in the world) and the Pearl River. A large part of the country is mountainous.... |
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is considered very healthy. JAPAN The Political System An emperor had ruled Japan from Kyoto but by the twelfth century the imperial court lost pow... |
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it became possible for gifted writers to earn The Japanese did not like the a living solely by writing. In Edo, people could ‘rent’ a book for the ... |
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saw the emergence of many women writers, like Murasaki, who wrote in the Japanese script, 70,000 people. Sericulture spread while men wrote in the ... |
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of the wood) are depicted in paintings and cartoons showing the strange foreigners and their habits. This became a powerful symbol of Japan’s ‘open... |
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of the Japanese and the the leader of westernisation. His birthday became a national holiday, he wore Western-style military uniforms, and edicts w... |
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government imposed a new administrative structure by altering old village and domain boundaries. The administrative unit had to have revenue adequa... |
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schools, and Japanese students were sent abroad. In 1872, modern banking institutions were launched. Companies like Mitsubishi and Sumitomo were he... |
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(1841-1913), under an emperor who was like a family patriarch. the self-taught son The rapid and unregulated growth of industry and the demand for ... |
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