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“Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie and the Ambiguous Afterlife of the History of the Acadians”
2018
Abstract Longfellow’s Evangeline was hailed as a great and distinctively American work when it appeared in 1847, and the poem’s use of North American history was a key element in its favourable reception. This use of history, however, is ambiguous and complex. The epic continues, first of all, in a long tradition of romanticized retellings of the heart-rending story of the Acadians. But the work also engages in a dual-level dialogue with both the mid-eighteenth-century history of the Acadians, who are pitied, without inciting indignation, and the contemporary history of midnineteenth-century America, whose expansionism it both implicitly celebrates and criticizes. Resume Evangeline, le poem…
El expansionismo comercial británico en el País Valenciano: el proyecto de creación de puerto franco en Alacant en 1706
1992
La ocupación de Madrid por los aliados en junio de 1706 hizo que los representantes de la reina Ana consideraran llegado el momento de proyectar sobre las colonias la nueva situación política y militar y plasmar en el papel las proyectadas nuevas relaciones comerciales entre Gran Bretaña y España. El enviado de la reina consideraba que la clara actitud antihabsburguesa de los castellanos, principales beneficiarios del comercio con América, uniría a británicos y a la Corona de Aragón, principales bastiones del austracismo, en el objetivo común de romper el monopolio de Castilla. Ante estas optimistas impresiones, la corte de Kensington decidió enviar a Stanhope en noviembre de 1706 un proyec…
U.S. Expansionism, Mexican Undocumented Migration, and American Obligations
2011
In his compelling piece, “Living in a Promiseland? Mexican Immigration and American Obligations,” Rogers Smith argues that the greater the degree to which the U.S. has coercively constituted the identities of non-citizens in ways that have made having certain relationships to America fundamental to their capacities to lead free and meaningful lives, the greater the obligations the U.S. has to facilitate those relationships. Over the last hundred years, many rural communities in Mexico have been constituted more by U.S. immigration policy and the labor demands of U.S. employers than by similar policies and economic factors in Mexico. According to Smith, this means that Mexicans may be owed “…