GGR240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: John Cabot, Bartolomé De Las Casas
10 Feb 2018
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Week 4: narratives of discovery, encounter and possession. Contacts: historical geographies of globalization: the human history of the continent is a reminder that na has never been an isolated or separate part of the planet; it was certainly not pristine". We treat it as a historically separate slice of territory. Na isn"t situated outside of history, it"s not pristine: the geographic networks of globalization that we speak about today have long histories. In the fifteenth century (and earlier), connections across extensive distances were already present, in na and elsewhere: the degree of transformation in terms of the consequences of the varieties the contact that occur mark the late 15th century. The continental contact" and interaction of lifeworlds, from the late 15th century onward, was profoundly transformational, on all sides. Contact" describes encounter b/w indigenous people and new arrivals. It"s a powerful world but also a slippery one.
