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    COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS: BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, 1607-1700

    COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS: BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, 1607-1700

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    National and religious rivalries and a desire for overseas expansion served as the backdrop against which Great Britain turned its eyes toward the Americas more than a century after Spain’s arrival. This lecture explores why British colonists of all socioeconomic groups chose to leave for the New World and the patterns of colonization they employed. Similar to the “Reconquest” in Spain, English incursion into Catholic Ireland during the Protestant Reformation was a dress rehearsal of sorts for how the Europeans engaged Indians—both were seen as “wild” and uncivilized, a discourse used to justify the usurpation of a conquered people’s lands. This is the second of two stand-alone lectures on comparative European colonization.
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    About the lecturer(s)

    Willie Hiatt

    Willie Hiatt, a Kentucky native, is an Associate Professor of History at Long Island University, Post Campus, and a former Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University (2019-20). He’s the author of The Rarified Air of the Modern: Airplanes and Technological Modernity in the Andes (Oxford, 2016). His current research is an oral history project examining how Maoist insurgents in Peru targeted high-tension towers during the Shining Path movement (1980-92).

    Lecture Details

    Sessions
    1 lecture(s)
    Day & Time
    Wednesday, 10:00am - 12:00pm
    Date(s)
    Oct 25, 2023