Word: conquests
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...nation-state is also exploding upward, into larger units, notably the European Community. It has not eradicated national rivalries, or xenophobia, or protectionism, or the danger of international trade wars. But the historic fact is that Western Europe has learned the momentous lesson: that war and conquest no longer lead to economic prosperity. Bending sovereignty, states are increasingly joining to cope with such common problems as the environment, communications, nuclear proliferation and a whole range of issues that used to be "internal affairs" -- including human rights...
...This has been the story of the past 500 years, ever since the European conquest of the Middle East 500 years ago," he said...
...area of history that PC has scored its largest successes. The reading of history is never static. There is no such thing as the last word. And who could doubt that there is still much to revise in the story of the European conquest of North and South America that historians inherited? Its basic scheme was imperial: the epic advance of civilization against barbarism; the conquistador bringing the cross and the sword; the red man shrinking back before the cavalry and the railroad. Manifest Destiny. The notion that all historians propagated this triumphalist myth uncritically is quite false; you have...
...reaction to it, comes the manufacture of its opposite myth. European man, once the hero of the conquest of the Americas, now becomes its demon; and the victims, who cannot be brought back to life, are sanctified. On either side of the divide between Euro and native, historians stand ready with tarbrush and gold leaf, and instead of the wicked old stereotypes, we have a whole outfit of equally misleading new ones. Our predecessors made a hero of Christopher Columbus. To Europeans and white Americans in 1892, he was Manifest Destiny in tights, whereas a current PC book like Kirkpatrick...
...focus of the holiday. Traditionally, says Berkeley Mayor Lonni Hancock, Columbus Day celebrations have been "Eurocentric and ignored the brutal realities of the colonization of indigenous peoples." The new holiday, vows Hancock, will provide "an accurate history" of the explorer's discoveries and show how they led to the conquest and destruction of ancient American civilizations. So far the residents have taken the change in stride; only about a dozen have complained. No word, however, on whether there will be Indigenous Peoples Day coat sales...