HISA05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: American Canal, Panama Canal, Herero And Namaqua Genocide
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Gives sense of vast transformation of world towards end of 19th century. Humanity not single pieces fractured into diff races. Intermingling theories of race, capitalism, search for civilization. Family born in britain, made his way to united state where in 1859 assumed new name illegitmate child spend youth in workhouse with poor once in us served in both sides of. American civil war was adventurer (according to prof) rights of africna americans. 1871, payed with herald went to north africa serch of livingston british missionary and had gone missing somewhere in jungles of eastern africa. His voyage to africa was one that would make his fortune as an adventurer writer, intermingled by extraordinnairy violence. Others lost his lives, shot animals and people, stanley shoots negroes as if they were monkeys. Repulsed by calisness wrote a book how i found livingstone. Story of violence savagery difference between temperate lands and tropical lands.
