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Europe and the People Without History by Eric Wolf.

Europe and the People Without History is a book by anthropologist Eric Wolf. First published in 1982, it focuses on the expansion of European societies in the Modern Era. It argues that this expansion affected both the societies that Europeans encountered in their expansion and European societies themselves. It asserts that non-European peoples were active participants in the progress of history, rather than static, unchanging cultures. The assumption that these 'others' are from unchanging cultures, and are left out of Eurocentric historical narratives is why they are referred to as 'people without history'. The "People Without History" also refers to those peoples of whom their cultures lack a formally written articulation of their histories hindering their inclusion in 'Western' historical narratives.

Some of Albert Einstein's Quotes...

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." 

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton) 


"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." 

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." 


"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." 


"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."

"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."  

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein

David Rumsey Map Collection

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”
Scottish historian Charles Mackay.

Botswana Guitar Music

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Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua

Born in Djougou (in modern Benin) around 1830, Baquaqua was captured in a local war and shipped out through the Dahomian port of Whydah as part of the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade. Arriving in Brazil, he began life as a slave in Pernambuco and was subsequently sold to a sea captain from Rio de Janeiro. In 1847 he escaped with the help of free black abolitionists while the ship was docked in New York City and spent two years in the free black Republic of Haiti with the American Baptist Free Mission Society. With the support of the mission society, he attended New York Central College in upstate New York from 1850 to 1853 and published his autobiography the following year.

Baquaqua's story is significant for several reasons. First, it gives a detailed account (comprising over half the text) of life and conditions in his home region before his enslavement. This section is written in the third person, probably by his editor Samuel Moore, based on information supplied by Baquaqua. Once Baquaqua is captured, however, the narrative switches to a first-person account. Second, Baquaqua's story is unusual in that his travels took him from Whydah to Brazil, the United States, Canada, and Haiti, thus illustrating the wide reach of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and New World slavery. As Lovejoy writes, Baquaqua was a man of the Black Adantic.

Originally published in 2001, the edited book has now come out in a revised and expanded second edition. A model for the editing of historical texts, the book contains a biographical introduction that is almost as long as the narrative itself, with extensive footnotes, four maps, twenty-seven illustrations, a glossary, a bibliography, and five appendixes containing letters written by Baquaqua and other source material.  

Robert Harms
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

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Map Window

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SOCNET

Understanding social networks within complex, nonlinear systems: geographically-integrated history and dynamics GIS.

Henry Koster's Journey in Brazil: A Cartographic Visualization. By Anderson Sandes

http://giscenter-rd.isu.edu/19thcenturyrecife/