HUM 002A Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Edward Long, Mercantilism, Royal African Company
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Only open to educated citizens thought capable of understanding the (cid:440)public good(cid:441): those who shared a moral and legal vision deriving from a shared class position. People who were seen to occupy lower rank of progress and civilization were excluded. Public sphere as basis for participation in civic sphere (politics, gov, voting: colonialism: colonialist mother country (metropole) versus colonized spaces (periphery) Papal bulls established european domination in america and africa. Treaties of tordesillas (1494) and treaty of saragossa (1529) claimed lands in africa to spain and portugal. The unknown opened to control and denomination: development of modern racism, carl linnaeus: father of modern taxonomy and differentiated races of. African, asian, european, and america: leveled by the norms of enlightenment: america-free, rule by custom; european-rule by law; asian-rule by opinion; african- rule by caprice. Imposition of a european ideal of beauty onto racial (cid:440)others(cid:441)
