Sunday, Jun 29, 2008

Chapter 2 Podcast New World Experiments: England's Seventeenth-Century Colonies

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This chapter discusses briefly the English colonies established in the seventeenth century. Its theme is the diversity of riligious practices, poiltical institutions and economic arrangements that charcterized the English empire in America.

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Friday, Jun 20, 2008

Chapter 1 Podcast : New World Encounters

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The "discovery" of America by Columbus initiated a series of cultural contacts between Indians, Europeans, and Africans in the Western Hemisphere. Each of these peoples brought preconceptions molded by their long histories into their contacts with other peoples, and each people was molded by contact with others.

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