American Indians in World History

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Witgen
Keyword(s):  
American Indians ◽  
New World ◽  
World History ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Indian History ◽  
American Indian History ◽  
Narrative Constructions ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explains the role of American Indians in world history by exploring the concept of a mutual encounter in the Americas in the first centuries following the Columbus voyages. The chapter quickly shifts to an examination of narrative constructions of North American history, in particular focusing on the relationship between American Indians, Atlantic World empires, and their settler colonies. This examination centers on an analysis of American Indian history and world history in the context of evolving social worlds that formed after contact. That context delineates an Atlantic New World of empires, colonies, trade, and alliance, and an indigenous New World in the interior of the continent, where autonomous Native peoples and homelands experience radical change as they incorporate new peoples, things, and ideas into their lives.

Entrepreneurship as Radical Change in the Family Business: Exploring the Role of Cultural Patterns

2001 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Hall ◽  
Leif Melin ◽  
Mattias Nordqvist
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
The Family ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the relationship between organizational culture and the entrepreneurial process that is viewed as radical change in the context of the family business. Drawing on results from two in-depth family business case studies, the authors develop a conceptual model for understanding organizational culture and its impact on entrepreneurial activities. The model is built around the extent to which the culture is connected to one dominant family member or several family members, the degree of cultural explicitness, and the degree of cultural openness. It is argued that whereas some cultural patterns tend to preserve the traditional way of doing business, others tend to facilitate entrepreneurial change. The conclusion is that to support entrepreneurial processes, managers need to foster a process of high-order learning in which old cultural patterns are continuously questioned and changed. To accomplish this, the organizational culture needs to be highly explicit and open.

The Siberian Frontier between “White Mission” and “Yellow Peril,” 1890s–1920s

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva-Maria Stolberg
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New World ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
World History ◽  
American Frontier ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
Remarkable Event ◽  
White Settlers

The Russian conquest of Siberia was not only a remarkable event in world history like the conquest of the New World by the Western European nations, but also a decisive step in Russia's empire-building. Through territorial enlargement the empire became multiethnic. This process resembled the expansion of the white settlers in North America. Like North America, Siberia represented an “open frontier.” Harsh nature and the encounter between the white settlers and the “savages” formed the identity of the frontier. From the perspective of modern cultural anthropology the frontier also shaped reflections on the self and the other. There existed, however, a decisive difference to the American frontier: Siberia became a meeting ground for Russian and Asian cultures. Whereas the American frontier—except in the encounter with Mexico—remained isolated, Russians early came in contact with Asian nations. From the early emergence of a modern state in Russia during the era of Enlightenment, Russia came into manifold contacts with “civilized” Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Koreans) and with “uncivilized” Asians, i.e. the tribes of Siberia. At the junction between Europe and Asia, Russia as a Eurasian empire was the sole country in Europe which was so near to Asia. It was therefore logical that Russia felt a kind of mission toward Asia and required the role of a mediator between Europe and Asia.

The Great Lakes

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Doerfler ◽  
Erik Redix
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Native People ◽  
Treaty Rights ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Indian History ◽  
American Indian History ◽  
History Of

The experience of Native people in the Great Lakes region is crucial to understanding the larger history of American Indians. The region was (and remains) a microcosm of the experiences of Native peoples in North America. Most major issues in American Indian history either originated in the Great Lakes or have had a corresponding impact, including removal, military conflict, allotment, termination, challenges of urban life, Indian activism, treaty rights, and economic development via gaming. This chapter reviews those events and topics while exploring the central and critical role that relationships have played in the lives and experiences of Native people in the Great Lakes.

Gender, Sexuality, and Family History

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Child
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Indian History ◽  
American Indian History ◽  
History Of

In 1939, an Ojibwe woman named Naynaabeak was involved in a conflict that shows some of the complexities that American Indians experienced throughout the history of settler colonialism in the United States. Her family did not live on a reservation, but they were Ojibwe people and tribal citizens and her home and fishing spot were historically Ojibwe places. The complex legal world defined by borders disrupted Naynaabeak’s ability to make a living, and her conflict was simply part of everyday existence for many Ojibwe women. This chapter considers the hurdles that Naynaabeak’s generation overcame in their determination to make a living, and how their efforts to remain on their lands, fishing grounds, forests, hills, and mountains—and especially their sacred places—enabled their descendants to maintain indigenous communities which still exist. The chapter reviews the literature about gender and labor in American Indian history to illuminate its major themes.

scholarly journals Design Strategy and Case Study of Distributed System Resilience in Chinese Context

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-363
Author(s):  
Nan Xia
Keyword(s):  
Distributed Systems ◽  
Distributed System ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Technical System ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Response Measures ◽  
The Relationship

Whether it is a large-scale complex challenge or a radical change, it is calling for a more resilient and sustainable socio-technical system. Distributed system is a new trend of sustainable transition of socio-technical system. The research on related design strategies of distributed systems can help us better understand the nature of distributed systems, the role of designers, and help designers more calmly deal with future related challenges. This paper has conducted an in-depth understanding and discussion on the resilience of soico-technical systems and the relationship between distributed systems and resilience. We selected three representative cases, combined with a series of response measures taken by China in Wuhan during COVID-19 to analyze. Three types of distributed system design strategies suitable for China are identified.

The Empire that Never Was

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-80
Author(s):  
Trevor Burnard (review) ◽  
Joyce Goodfriend (review) ◽  
Cynthia Van Zandt (review) ◽  
Willem Frijhoff (review) ◽  
Wim Klooster (response)
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Hudson River ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Johan Maurits ◽  
United Provinces

This book forum focuses on Wim Klooster’s The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (Cornell University Press, 2016). In his book, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast. The fleets and armies that fought for the Dutch in the decades-long war against Spain included numerous foreigners, largely drawn from countries in northwestern Europe. Likewise, many settlers of Dutch colonies were born in other parts of Europe or the New World. According to Klooster, the Dutch would not have been able to achieve military victories without the native alliances they carefully cultivated. Indeed, Klooster concludes, the Dutch Atlantic was quintessentially interimperial, multinational, and multiracial. At the same time, it was an empire entirely designed to benefit the United Provinces. The four reviewers – Trevor Burnard, Joyce Goodfriend, Cynthia Van Zandt, and Willem Frijhoff – all offer praise, some more profusely than others. Their reviews critically question some aspects of Klooster’s narrative, particularly in relation to slavery, the inevitability of the Dutch Atlantic empire’s decline, his assessment of the rule of Johan-Maurits van Nassau-Siegen in Dutch Brazil, the role of violence and of women in Dutch colonization, as well as the relationship between microcosmic and macrocosmic perspectives on the history of Dutch America.

Choosing a Markov blanket

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Parr
Keyword(s):  
Markov Blanket ◽  
Target Article ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This commentary focuses upon the relationship between two themes in the target article: the ways in which a Markov blanket may be defined and the role of precision and salience in mediating the interactions between what is internal and external to a system. These each rest upon the different perspectives we might take while “choosing” a Markov blanket.

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