#amerikas — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/internationales/kirks-vermachtnis-und-der-fall-thevessen-amerikas-konservative-missbrauchen-die-meinungsfreiheit-14332781.html (€) #Amerikas #Konservative missbrauchen die #Meinungsfreiheit
#ZDF
Allerdings illustriert die Causa #Theveßen die zwiespältige Haltung vieler #Konservativer zur Meinungsfreiheit. Es ist widerspruchsfrei kaum möglich, Kirks Vermächtnis zu loben – eben die bedingungslose #Meinungsfreiheit – und #Kirks Kritiker für die Inanspruchnahme dieser Meinungsfreiheit zu sanktionieren. Wer es dennoch tut, instrumentalisiert einen Wert aus politisch-taktischen Gründen.

https://archive.org/details/west-indies-patterns

The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change Since 1492 by David Watts

Topics
#Caribbean, #Caribbeanhistory, #historyoftheCaribbean, #geography, #historicalgeography, #genocide, #blackchattelslavery, #slavetrade, #antiblackness, #translatlanticslavetrade, #whitesupremacy, #imperialism, #colonialism, #spanishimperialism, #spanishcolonialism, #britishimperialism, #britishcolonialism, #frenchimperialism, #frenchcolonialism, #dutchimperialism, #dutchcolonialism, #amerikas, #northamerika, #plantations, #plantationeconomy, #sugarplantations, #environmentalgeography, #slavesocieties, #ecology

This magisterial survey of the historical geography of the West Indies is at bottom concerned with the causes and consequences of three complex and inter-related phenomena: the rapid and total removal of a large aboriginal population; the development of plantation agriculture and the arrival of enforced labour, in the form of many thousands of African slaves; and the environmental, ecological and cultural changes that resulted.