Colonies

These are the slides for my fifth session.

The topics covered include:

  1. Colonists as raiders and missionaries: Nuño de Guzmán vs. Padre Kino

  2. Potosí, the Mita, quicksilver and the atrocities of mineral extraction

  3. Can an export commodity enhance development?

  4. GIS Layers to dissect a territory into its components

  5. Plantations in depopulated areas vs. Indigenous defense of territory

  6. Land rights and Indigenous cartography

  7. Internal colonialism

  8. Banana Republics and the story of Fordlandia