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Notes on video lecture:
18th Century Land Grabbing
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on February 21, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
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Crawford, global, apartheid, Spain, Fairfax, Shawnee, China, 1750s, sugar, hunting, assets, treks, dispossessing, regain, incumbent, Rush, possession, Kentucky, defense, Khoikhoi, 40%, Southern, treaties
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in 1767 a man named George Washington wrote a letter to William                 
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"any person who neglects the present opportunity of                out good lands and in some measure marking them for his own, in order to keep others from settling them, will never              it"
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capturing the mood of an era we might call The First Great Land         
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people from around the world were turning frontiers into             
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could be compared to the spread of the mulberry and rice frontier in           
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land which had belonged to Indians was turned into            plantations
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there were land rushes before, but from the middle of the 18th century, this land rush became             
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effect frontier lands all around the world
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Virgina
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it's boundaries were unclear as you pushed westward
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it is now only about        of its original size
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Virginia was an incubus for land hunters
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this is how George Washington imagined himself
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very important for global enterprise
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               Proprietary company
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hired George Washington and Daniel Boone (explored                 )
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George Washington made his fortune by speculating in frontier lands
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a process that would gather in earnest in the           
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sparked wars with the                people's
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1748 The Ohio Company
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1750 map of America
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New France
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New           
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the English colonies
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important shift
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difference between colonialism and corporations
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from empires of trade to empires of settlement
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turning lands that belonged to villagers of                    populations into land that could be bought and sold
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British North America was not the only place this was happening
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South Africa
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a destination for land hunters
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1652 Dutch East Indian Company created its own colonies
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first trading with the                  African native populations, e.g. the Khoikhoi
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as Dutch settlers moved into South Africa, they began to press up into the lands of the native peoples
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began creating their own armies and                units
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trekboers
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protection units ended up not only protecting settlers but actively created property
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not only defended pastoral lands
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took the                  people and enslaved them
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in seizing lands and                            peoples
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raids into the hinterlands were called           
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culminating in the creation of an                    state after the Second World War
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Australia
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New Zealand
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Northern Mexico
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Argentina
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Canada
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now more than the mixing patterns that we saw in early empire endeavors
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now we have land-grabbing and
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a slow change from negotiating and diplomacy inside to outright seizure and dispossession of incumbent property
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                 and laws began to favor this process of land-grabbing
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Europe had turned the wheel from plunder to                     

Spelling Corrections:

dispocession ⇒ dispossession

Ideas and Concepts:

From the Great Land Grab department, via tonight's History of the World Since 1300 Class: "Any person who neglects the present opportunity of hunting out good lands and in some measure marking them for his own, in order to keep others from settling them, will never regain it. (George Washington, 1767)"
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