Colonies
These are the slides for my fifth session.
The topics covered include:
Colonists as raiders and missionaries: Nuño de Guzmán vs. Padre Kino
Potosí, the Mita, quicksilver and the atrocities of mineral extraction
Can an export commodity enhance development?
GIS Layers to dissect a territory into its components
Plantations in depopulated areas vs. Indigenous defense of territory
Land rights and Indigenous cartography
Internal colonialism
Banana Republics and the story of Fordlandia
