EMPIRE HUMAN RIGHTS EXCLUSIONDr Maurice MullardLecture 3

LANDING OF COLUMBUS PAINTED 1844 What does this painting say about America? Discourse of colonialism Mind management complements military

political and economic power What are the implications when we say

Columbus discovered America That this was Day One Other endogenous groups did not exist Land as terra nullis

THE GREEKS

History of the Trojan War – destruction of Troy Alexander the Great the most extensive

Empire The Greek knowledge, travel and possession Bronze Age steel weapons against wood

THE ROMANS Bringing people into the light The other the barbarians Citizenship of Rome

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND EMPIRES 1493 Bulls of Dominion granted to the King

and Queen of Spain to go and discover the other side of the Atlantic

assumption on universal Christianity Spain beginning of the end in 1598 loss of

the Netherlands Holland Protestant and a Republic loss of the Armada in 1588

THE BRITISH Elizabeth Drake and Raleigh first colonies in

Virginia Feeling of superiority Help the Indians against Spain protestants

against the Pope

AMERICA Engraving J Stradanus what does it say Male Gaze – Europe Gaze Americus Vesspucci America the woman

naked The Body occupation 18th Century Racism

People in the background cannibals

Primitive Savage – terra nullis Barbarian natural rights and occupation Native Americans British colony in Virginia

1602 Drake Raleigh British and Spanish rivalries

HISTORY AS COMPLEX STORIES Role of the narrative creating a paradigm Challenge to the paradigm Revisions of history People emering from empires created own

histories Need for identity Possible for dual citizenship Why belong to one geographic space