HUMA 1770 Lecture Notes - Columbian Exchange, Global Warming
26 May 2013
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The record of past events that make up history, however, is incomplete. Oral tradition = incomplete, misleading (because the stories people tell them) Artifacts = using writing for 5000 years + Medium it is written on (how long paper takes to be destroyed, stones) History is select (what is important to be remembered and how did we talk about it) Understand the past, if we want to understand where we are now. Taking chances (tired of this situation and want to change it) Collective struggles of people, how they struggle together to achieve goals. Made by human beings = human agency, not puppets, might we can affect the world. Might not succeed (democracy uprising isn"t successful in all countries) No guarantees, no obvious ends to all of these particular struggles. Human agency = there is a purpose to all this. City based, larger communities who have the wealth/surplus in the ability in the individual to escape labour.
