HIST 1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Slavery In Africa, Jewish Diaspora, Non-Resident Indian And Person Of Indian Origin
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Expanding 44 square miles per day for 300 years. Start of american formal empire with victory in spanish-american. Us maintains several military bases (630) across the world today (pretty much no other country does this) More than all the european empires combined during their peak. Expansion of formal european imperialism in later half of nineteenth century. Easier to move around in the world then than now. Because there"s essentially only a few countries in the world. Most of the world"s land is controlled by a handful of. You can form a community in a new place (i. e. diaspora). However, you cannot create a community in that particular new place without moving. Migration and diaspora are two separate but interconnected ideas. Migrations are necessary for diasporas to be created. Wave of immigration into the united states and neo-europe. However, we do not often consider these immigrants (from this time period) as [establishing] diasporas.
