This line: ““The story of the ones who didn’t win”

https://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2018/02/song-southwest

Apropos of our discussion of laboring diasporas in the global economy

https://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2018/02/constructing-identities

An excellent piece on the silver peso as the first global currency!!

http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2132260/how-china-and-hong-kongs-currencies-were-shaped-spanish-mexican-silver

Lecture 5 notes

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z9igv05k652ropg/Lecture%205-%20Indian%20Empires%20Dying%2C%20What%20Happened%20to%20the%20Slave%20Empire%20and%20Silver%20Empire.pdf?dl=0

A great example of the 2nd global age! Watch at the end of the review for the near-perfect timing of it’s falling apart.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/review-the-food-explorer-1518819447

Both the book itself and the review hinge greatly on some of the questions about education we have been asking.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/review-alone-at-the-summit-1518813948

And an interesting article relating to our discussion of the fortunes built on slavery...

https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21736117-they-evolved-slavery-how-painful-origins-many-creole-languages

Interesting story on the nature of interaction in the Silver Empire of Europeans & Indians.

"The revelations have not only prompted personal reckonings but also fueled a larger debate on Hispanic and Native American identity."

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On my claim that the American Revolution turned out be disastrous for Indian Nations

President Washington's Indian War

https://www.wsj.com/articles/president-washingtons-indian-war-1498688622?emailToken=fbdd566753e2a9ae33ff22d140332e153zkOS16p2H6ZZkTif4BC0ETL76%2B%2FNU8n7NrYBvksg2CmK1w43pk6Ff9SgXMCEZfixM%2Bt6sqhHRhReaXPKVAwGQ%3D%3D

And here’s an article Paolo found on the subject.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/02/02/mysterious-lost-maya-cities-discovered-in-guatemalan-jungle.html

This was the new research that Paolo was referring to!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/02/03/mayan-civilization-was-much-vaster-than-known-thousands-of-newly-discovered-structures-reveal/

Lecture 4 notes

https://www.dropbox.com/s/u0ova7bi7ackcib/Lec%204-%20%28WWE%20cont%29The%20Wars%20That%20Will%20End%20the%20First%20Global%20Economy.pdf?dl=0

Lecture 3 notes

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xhqxmhnl5dq671s/Lec%203--%20Indian%20Empires%20%26%20The%20Great%20Exception.docx?dl=0

The nature of History 130

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jal94vw59oyb8g2/Hist%20130%20conceptual.pdf?dl=0

Prompt for the paper

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dxj3u1tvhfnddlh/Douglass%20paper%20prompt.pdf?dl=0

Interesting piece.

"Having dispensed with the real Indians, America then began losing its heart to imaginary ones.":

https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21736555-thinking-about-natives-era-nativism-looking-indians-white-americans-see

Lecture 2 notes

https://www.dropbox.com/s/h7set9f9pnzo7t4/Lec%202--%20Silver%20%26%20Sugar%20Empires.pdf?dl=0