colonial - Preserved Stories

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In worldwide colonial history Indigenous peoples succumbed to disease arriving with settler society, were pushed aside to marginal lands, or were killed; many resisted

August 25, 2019/1 Comment/in Commentary, Long Branch, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill

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My interest in colonial and military history began with a study of local history in Toronto

August 18, 2019/2 Comments/in Commentary, Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill

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Colonial powers stripped those cultures they intended to exploit of heritage, pride, and self-identity

January 25, 2012/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan Pill

I came across Europe and the people without history by reading a citation about it in Karolyn Smardz Frost (2007). The citation notes that Eric Wolf (1982) “demonstrated how colonial powers stripped those cultures they intended to exploit of heritage, pride, and self-identity” (Frost 2007, p. 355). That’s an apt description. Wolf describes specified political and […]

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