The Worldly West March 2, 2011 Western and World History The Frontier and West in Worlds Together, Worlds Apart The Frontier and West in Worlds Together, Worlds Apart Connections Connections Columbian Exchange Columbian Exchange Atlantic and Pacific Worlds Atlantic and Pacific Worlds Population Movements Population Movements Comparisons Comparisons Ethnic Cleansings and Settler Colonialism Ethnic Cleansings and Settler Colonialism Indigenous Resistance Indigenous Resistance Extractive Economies and Arid Environments Extractive Economies and Arid Environments Shifting Visions of the Frontier and West in American History and Popular Culture Feel Good Feel Good Feel Guilty Feel Guilty A New Feel Good: Kumbaya Colonialism A New Feel Good: Kumbaya Colonialism John Gast, American Progress (1872) Frederick Jackson Turner Charles Deas, Death Struggle 1845 Kicking Bear, Battle at Little Big Horn (1898), Autry National Center The Feel Good Lewis and Clark Lewis and Clark in Comparative Perspective The most practicable water route across the continent... The most practicable water route across the continent... African Counterpoint: Mungo Park African Counterpoint: Mungo Park Mungo Park Expedition The Lessons and Legacies of Lewis and Clark and Mungo Park From Colonial History to Continental, Hemispheric, and Global Histories of Colonialism Diversity and Dynamism: The Problem with Culture Areas and Language Families U.N. Definition of Ethnic Cleansing a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror- inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas. To a large extent, it is carried out in the name of misguided nationalism, historic grievances, and a powerful driving sense of revenge. This purpose appears to be the occupation of territory to the exclusion of the purged group or groups. a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror- inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas. To a large extent, it is carried out in the name of misguided nationalism, historic grievances, and a powerful driving sense of revenge. This purpose appears to be the occupation of territory to the exclusion of the purged group or groups. Counter Colonialism Compared Nineteenth-Century Prophetic Resistance Movements in Global Perspective Nineteenth-Century Prophetic Resistance Movements in Global Perspective Tenskwatawa and Wovoka Tenskwatawa and Wovoka The Caste War in Mexico The Caste War in Mexico Taiping Rebellion Taiping Rebellion Wahabism Wahabism The Indian Mutiny of 1857 The Indian Mutiny of 1857 The West belongs to everyone Sergio Leone Illegal Immigrants in the Nineteenth- Century West Governor Pio Pico: We find ourselves threatened by hordes of Yankee immigrants who have already begun to flock into our country, and whose progress we cannot arrest.... Shall we remain supine, while these daring strangers are overrunning our fertile plains, and gradually outnumbering and displacing us? Shall these incursions go on unchecked, until we shall become strangers in our own land? Governor Pio Pico: We find ourselves threatened by hordes of Yankee immigrants who have already begun to flock into our country, and whose progress we cannot arrest.... Shall we remain supine, while these daring strangers are overrunning our fertile plains, and gradually outnumbering and displacing us? Shall these incursions go on unchecked, until we shall become strangers in our own land? Mark Twain History doesnt repeat itself, but it rhymes.