History of American Indians and the United States
Terra Nullius
Dr. Kane
mkane2@albany.edu Humanities 109 | MWF 9:20 - 10:15 AM
Office Hrs: M 10:20 - 11:20 & F 1:30 - 3:30
Social Science 60S
Friday, November 3
coming up
- Objects paper Nov 6
- email your images by Nov 5 - mini presentations in class
- Final proposal - Nov 13 guidelines on Bb
- this week - politics of colonial history
- next week - pre-contact
today's class
- who directs early contact?
- concepts of landownership
- how do narratives of contact get told?
Cantino Planisphere 1502
Thomas Hariot
New Found Land of Virginia
land use
land sales?
- sale of Manhattan for $24?
- Henry Hudson & requests for cloth
- Black Legend & claims of legitimacy
- Inter Caetera & Treaty of Tordesillas
- how to legitimate imperial claims?
terra nullius
- John Locke and Thomas Hobbes
- usufruct vs fee simple land ownership
- Locke: terra nullius, labor theory of property and enclosure
- Hobbes: “state of nature,” social contracts and English Civil War