HIST 202 Lecture Notes - Book Of Nature, Fictive Kinship, Blood Brother
7 May 2012
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Hist 202 survey: canada to 1867 (september 26th 2011) How do we tell these stories that both respects/reflects the autonomy of these people, but also describes the destructive empire. Emphasize resilience and action with native people. No single way of telling this story. History is about facts, but also about the meanings we prescribe to these facts. Meanings are crucial and never totally simple/one sided. Metaphor: entanglement: idea of native people entangled in empires. Religion is an extremely important factor in the building empires. Partnership between monotheism and empire: in the christian case, back to constantine. There is a sense of the birth of international law, or one of the important strands of international law, is created by christian. Missionaries (religious professionals) are extremely important, and indeed the claim of secular officials (governors and the king of. France) to be christian rules are the central part of the empire. Painting: la france apportant la foi la nouvelle-france .
