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Seminar
SoSe 17: Schemes and Dreams of Independence and National Aggrandizement: Filibustering in the American Hemisphere, 1806 – 1860
Andreas Beer
Comments
In the early 19th century the Americas experienced a wave of so-called filibustering expeditions, i.e. privately organized attempts of colonization and conquest originating in the US. Analyzing the social history of several of these today oft-forgotten attacks (which targeted a panoply of countries from Canada to Venezuela), we will discuss their intersections with issues like the shifting physical and legal limits of the nation state, differing interpretations of Manifest Destiny in ‘antebellum’ US cultures, Southern anxieties about slavery and abolition, gendered notions of expansionism, and transnational entanglements of military and intellectual elites.
Additionally, we will contextualize the collective memory and amnesia of these early imperial ambitions in the US, comparing it to spikes of renewed interest in 1898 and the mid-1980s.
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Wed, 2017-04-19 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-04-26 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-05-03 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-05-10 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-05-17 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-05-24 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-05-31 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-06-07 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-06-14 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-06-21 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-06-28 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-07-05 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-07-12 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2017-07-19 14:00 - 16:00