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MR. TAMBOURINE MEN & THE WAR DANCE
The idea of American Manifest Destiny is not exclusive to the mid-eighteenth century, though the period of imperial “Westward Ho!” is one of the more conspicuous symptoms of that deeper, existential malady—the messianic mission to make the world over in … Continue reading
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NATIVE INTELLIGENCE
The concept of the Manifest Destiny has acquired a variety of meanings over the years, and its inherent ambiguity has been part of its power. ”Manifest Destiny was always a general notion rather than a specific policy. The term combined a … Continue reading
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INDIAN GIVERS & LAND DITHERS
”For a time Europeans had invented an AMERICA peopled by noble savages, men uncorrupted by civilization; as Montaigne wrote, quoting Seneca, they were “fresh from the gods”. But Europe has never stopped reinventing the New World. The eighteenth-century debate took … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Corneille de Pauw, Alexander Hamilton, Alexander Stuart, American Slavery, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Ben Franklin, Buffalo Bill Cody, Chief Billy Bowlegs, Comte de Buffon, Conrad Black, E. Adamson Hoebel, Ellen Wallace Sharples, Freidrich von Gentz, Geoff Mangum, George Catlin, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Jerry Keenan, John Trudell, Karl Bodmer, Marquis de Condorcet, Thomas Jefferson
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HUCKSTERS & HYPERBOLE
To Europeans intellectuals of the eighteenth century, America was a battleground of ideas; the war between Nature and civilization.And its proponents did not mince words. Respected academics like Comte de Buffon reported that domesticated animals imported from Europe as well … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Raynal, Albert Gallatin, Aztecs, Christopher Columbus, Comte de Buffon, Crevecoeur, Diderot, E. Adamson Hoebel, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Incas, John Trudell, John White Art, Lord Fitzgerald, Paul Kane, Rationalism and Romanticism, Voltaire, Voltaire Candide, william R. Leigh
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MALICE and the MISSISSIPPI
”For a time Europeans had invented an AMERICA peopled by noble savages, men uncorrupted by civilization; as Montaigne wrote, quoting Seneca, they were “fresh from the gods”. But Europe has never stopped reinventing the New World. The eighteenth-century debate took … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Corneille de Pauw, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Brendan O'Conner, Colin Farrell, Comte de Buffon, Dr. Johnson, Dr. William Robertson, E. Adamson Hoebel, Eve Kornfeld, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Horace Walpole, Immanuel Kant, Jacques le Moyne, James Ceasar, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Lee Alan Dugatkin, Marlene Zuk, Oliver Goldsmith, Robertson History of America, Samuel Johnson, susan manning, Theodore de Bry, Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire
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