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MR. TAMBOURINE MEN & THE WAR DANCE
The idea of American Manifest Destiny is not exclusive to the mid-eighteenth century, though the period of imperial “Westward Ho!” is one of the more conspicuous symptoms of that deeper, existential malady—the messianic mission to make the world over in … Continue reading
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HIGHWAY 1761 REVISITED
”Guillaume-Thomas-François, abbé Raynal (1713-1796) was an Enlightened historian who wrote on the Dutch Stadholderate and the English Parliament. His most famous work was the 8 volume Histoire philosophique et politique, des établissements et du commerce des européens dans les deux … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex de Toqueville, battle of yorkton, Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin West, Comte de Buffon, Francis Bacon, General Sullivan, Guillaume Thomas Francois abbe Raynal, Isaac Newton, Jacques LeMoyne, James Fenimore Cooper, James Gillray, Jan Verelst, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Mix Stanley, Last of the Mohicans, Louis Maurer, Sir Francis Bacon, Theodor de Bry, www.firstpeople.us
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AMID BITS OF FLOATING WRECKAGE
To North American taste, Camoens, is probably the least readable among the schoolroom classics of Western literature. he seems to be more pertinent, however read as a product of his native Lisbon, the seat of the West’s first overseas empire. … Continue reading
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