GGR240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: E-Selectin, Frederick Jackson Turner, 2000 Miles
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Railroads and the rese. lement of the west. Race and class in english tobacco colony of virginia. Transforma. on of barbados into sugar island" with majority slave popula. on working under brutal condi. ons. Black atlan. c as a transna. onal cultural network, forged ini. ally through slavery, but s. ll meaningful today. Aboli. on and revolu. on: hai. and new no. ons of human freedom. Land as commodity, divided and managed by colonial administra. ons through surveys and cadastral maps. Lecture outline: dispossession and reseqlement, surveying for op. miza. on: john wesley powell in the arid west. Iron civilizers: railroad . me and space: transforming canada"s interior. Inland empire: chicago, rail, and the west: the fron. er thesis: frederick jackson turner looks west. Colonialism was expressed in a reserve system. Con ned aboriginal people and opened the rest of the land for coloniza. on. They were in the way, their land was coveted, so seqlers took it. By early 20th century, 1500 reserves comprised 1/3 of 1% of the province.
