HST 119 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gillo Pontecorvo, Portuguese Empire, British Sugar

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: History
• Course: HST 119
• Professor: Joey Power

Document Summary

Film made in 1968 by gillo pontecorvo. Story of william walker (fictional) british admiralty advisor and foreign advisor. Sent out by government to west indies in the early 19 century to ferment revolution. Replace portuguese imperialism with british free trade commercial domination. Replace one form of empire imperialism with trade capitalism in britain. He manufactures a revolution via a slave revolt: slaves have total absence of political rights. First part is successful revolt of colony but this fails when they are put in planter class. Second is to suppress forces of former slaves in reaction to control of planter class with british sugar company. Film is completely fiction: represents slave revolt and revolution in west indies. Associated with revolt in st domingue the later republic of haiti in 1804. Reflects what is going on in america in the 1960s. O(cid:373)e use fil(cid:373) as refle(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a"s a(cid:272)tio(cid:374) i(cid:374) viet(cid:374)a(cid:373)