Settlers of Catan
2013; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 3; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/18380743.2013.761941
ISSN2201-473X
Autores Tópico(s)American Environmental and Regional History
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Blake Eskin, 'Like Monopoly in the Depression, Settlers of Catan is the Board Game of Our Time', The Washington Post, November 21, 2010. Henry George's most successful treatise was Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth (New York: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1979 [1879]). Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996). Did Huntington play Sid Meier's Civilization (which was released in 1991)? Should we listen to scholars whose vision of global history is that of a turn-based strategy video game? See also Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest (New York: Penguin Press, 2011). See James Belich, Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World, 1783–1939 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), especially 145–76. See William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (New York: Hill and Wang, 1983). See Allan Greer, 'Commons and Enclosure in the Colonization of North America', American Historical Review, 117, no. 2 (2012): 365–86. Coming 'to stay', is Patrick Wolfe's definition of settler colonialism. See Patrick Wolfe, Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology (London: Cassell, 1999), 2. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003 [1980]). Tony Fry, 'Urban Futures in the Age of Unsettlement', Futures 43 (2011): 432–9. 'Having perhaps 10% of the global population as refugees, together with large numbers of 'internally displaced persons' (IDPs), combined with the climate-forced relocation of many towns and cities, means that is possible that the 'twelve thousand year epoch of human settlement' will come to an end and be replaced by an age of unsettlement', he notes (434). It is significant that the solution he has in mind is in many ways similar to the solution that was generally proposed during the age of settlement: 'moving cities', an inevitable consequence of the unsettlement produced by climate change, would require 'the transportability socio-cultural relations, economy and structures over-riding current investments in place' (437). This, after all, is exactly what settler colonialism was about during what Canadian historian John C. Weaver called the 'Great Land Rush': building new worlds elsewhere, including new polities, in ways that reproduce the ones left behind. See John C. Weaver, The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650–1900 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003).
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