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(M. Cadwell) HIST 571T Final Project Ideas

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Below are the three project development ideas for this class. These projects will assist in my MA project: Creative Gentrification in Santa Ana.

Plan I: Seeding Gentrification through the 19th century Renovation Movement

Spatial Fields: Discussing how the labor class changes from blue to white collar workers in the late 19th century to early 20th century. This working class change introduces a changing need of housing and women within the workforce.

Temporal: 1880 Manhattan erects a high-rise purposefully built for new middle-class workers. 1800s Frank A Bourne transforms Beacon Hill’s rooming homes into apartments for white collar workers. Later you have the same thing happen on Manhattan’s Westside, Chicago’s Gold Coast and Rittenhouse Square. The spatial landscape changed from small dilapidated housing to upper-income apartments, thus, inviting new groups of people into the area through Renovation. Creation of Artists’ Districts to create a counter-culture to the elite boosterism within these communities. (This argument based on Mike Davis City of Quartz).

Goal: Illustrate how the Renovation Movement provided upward mobility for a white-collar working class while potentially displacing other ethnic working class living environment. (Another idea that comes to mind is Cabbage Row and the Porgy/Bess musical).

Plan II: Preservation through Cultural Displacement: Jarring Cultural Boundaries in 19th Century America

Spatial Fields: Discussing the 19th-century preservation groups, primarily ran by Women, to cultivate their idea of cultural value while illustrating their domestic domain in a business world.

Temporal: Patricia West Domesticating History speaks about women becoming the guardians of the American Spirit. The  Agency in Domestic Reform and how women architects are taking on the Anglo-Saxon approach of a home made for each private family, not rooming homes restored the American spirit. Discuss how this changes collective memory of an era and environmental history of other cultures.

Goal: Define how preserving the American Spirit through Anglo perceived ‘other’ culture by imperialist nostalgia and romanticism.

Plan III: Cultural Displacement through 19th century Westward Dominion  

Spatial Fields: Discussing how the labor class changes from blue to white collar workers in the late 19th century to early 20th century. This introduces a changing need of housing and women into the labor force.

Temporal: Looking at the idea of ‘Chinatowns’ in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Idea of Olvera Street in Los Angeles displaces true cultural, historical narratives in the 19th century. Other groups like the Chumash indigenous tribes displaced by Pacific trade (Igler’s Great Ocean) could also be discussed. Maybe can talk about culture mold-breakers like Biddy Mason in Los Anegles is still portrayed as a mid-wife delivering many babies in modern public space?

Goal: American’s desire to create new spatial boundaries based on regional and racial identity displaces culture while embodying myth building collective memories. How does Anglo-Americans tending to perceived identities effect the shaping of communal civic relationships between them and other cultural groups?

 

 

 

Impelling Ephemera: Remapping Lenses of American Dominion (Gould Response 2)

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Key Quote: “The revolution enables the Unions’ citizens to behind making their history, but the history that they made was often the history that others were willing to let them make” (p.2).

Key Terms: “Model Treaty,” (1), “Struggle for Dominion over others,” (4), “Peace = Key features of European empires,” (5), “Liberationist events through globalization of power,” (7), “entangled nation,” (10)

In Among the Powers of the Earth, Gould centralizes his argument American Revolution is founded on the diplomacy and political views of European Nations. Specifically, that America required a formed nation modeled off of European powers to become recognized and accepted on the globalized geopolitical scale. Further, Gould divides the forming United States into regional neighborhoods. Gould cartographically shows, the Northern Region, the Gulf Region, and its maritime borders required the law of nations to become dominate and effectively show dominion’s interactions with neighbors. Gould points to America creating an ‘entangled nation’ which describes the mirrored European diplomacy while striving to become a treaty-worthy nation working with others in the trade.

Gould covers enough time to effectively make his point, by spanning his argument over a seventy-year period. Additionally, it allows Gould to connect our wars (French and Indian War) with European conflicts (Seven Years War), thus furthering his ‘American models European empire and power’ to solidify our place at the globalizing nations grown-ups table. America using both the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God to separate us from the European powers of the earth and create individual liberty provides us an advantage in furthering dominion/sovereignty.  The geographic distance provided distinct opportunity to create a unique space, apart from Europe. I made new connections with the current estate to recent foreign policy affairs. This book assists the reader in discovering that American continues be to challenged with international legalities and how we keep the peace, yet defend out sovereignty we built when the Declaration of Independence replaced the Articles of Confederation.

While I believe that economic and social advancement and development lenses are equally important within this time frame, the legal angle provides the architecture to which the other lenses connect. Gould creates a strong case for re-evaluation on the collective memory of America’s founding. He argues that field scholars often pay too much attention to the American North (p.8). Missing vital neighborhood’s where our Nation’s new sovereignty and liberties, field scholars cannot reclaim and reassert the collective memory of our direct neighborly interactions (the Gulf is pertinent to illustrate this point as we were protecting the Spanish attempting to further their northern boundaries). Pekka Hämäläinen gives the Comanche tribe agency; I feel that Gould is seeking to give back America’s agency by redefining how we examine the American Revolution. This is done not only by reviewing the legalities of a new nation but its interactions mirroring its ‘bigger brother’ the European powers, allowing our pursuit of liberty and freedoms  through developing sovereignty.

Navigating Comanche Narration with Modern Storytelling: Influencing Collective Memory in the Southwest

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Key Quote:  “Comanche bands and division formed an internally fluid but externally coherent collation that accomplished through a creative blending of violence, diplomacy, extortion, trade, and kinship politics what more rigidly structured expires have achieved through direct political control: they imposed their will upon neighboring polities, harness the economic potential of other societies for their own use, and persuade their rivals to adopt and accept their customs and norms (p4).

Key Terms: Comanche Imperialism, Comanche Barrier, Comanche Ascendancy, Comancheria, “Cameo” theory of history, Frontier Exchange Economies, David Weber, Ross Frank, Andres Resendez, Ned Blackhawk, Gary Clayton Anderson, James Brooks, Upstreaming, Sidestreaming, Bruce Trigger, Aggressive Power Politics

 

The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hamalainen provides new southwestern scholarship, which focuses on the Comanche Indian tribe as a calculated political force that managed southwestern territory. Hamalainen asserts that the Comancheria were an aggressive, violent group utilizing political and power flexibility to assert imperial dominance. This scholarship offers numerous comparisons and some differences to Spanish colonization. Arguing his scholarship centers within previous Southwestern Indian Agency, Hamalainen urges readers to “look at Native policies toward colonial powers as more than defensive strategies of resistance and containment,” (p7). This non-linear perspective provides scholarship to illustrate a Non-Anglo perspective.  Classifying the southwest as a ‘zone for cultural interpenetration’ and a socially charged space provides new historians to recast the southwest as an dynamic power, both politically and economically. The author utilizes works of Weber, Frank, Resendez, Blackhawk, Brooks, but relies heavily on Fredrick Hoxie’s method of an ‘cookbook ethnohistory’(p14), which plays up aspects of Comanche Behavior.

This reading contradicts itself in places, but provides a suggestive perspective to the political prowess of the Comanche Empire. Hamalainen utilizes primary sources from Spanish, French, Mexican and Anglo-American documents to create a stereoscopic vision of the Comancheria. He utilizes these sources to get a feel of the Comanche objectives during their encounters with their ‘co-creators of the common world’ (p8). However, he mentions that their intentions as imperialist are calculated, key players forcing newbie colonizers to compete for southwest resources. If the Comanche Indians were truly the calculative, aggressive and manipulative with their co-creators, then how are all of these encounters with Spanish, French, Mexican and Anglo-Americans similar enough to gauge and suggest their motives? Hamalainen suggests that the Comanche Indians and Euro-Americans understood each other too well and did not like what each other had in mind (in terms of southwestern expansion). If it is really worth mentioning or suggesting that they were ‘too much alike’ then why go to the extensive efforts to make both the Comanche and co-creators voice different? It is to illustrate that the Comanche Indians as imperialist in the colonial world. My only issue really is not the fault of the author but rather the evidence utilized. Hamalainen states that the evidence is ‘invariably infected with gaps, accidental misreadings and intentional misconstructions’ (p13). When reading the modern tones and suggestive wording through both chapters, you can visually see Hamalaienen struggle with the fragmentary pieces of Comanche encounters and life. This is most apparent when he mentions modern-worded perspectives (p 50, 73) and gender bifurcation like the masculine dishonor of losing one’s wife or children in battle. While this is an excellent and fresh perceptive on southwestern history, I believe Hamalaienen stains to alter the collective memory of tribal Native American groups utilized modern tones and wider known histories of Spanish colonization efforts. Hodes and Hamalaienen both deploy storytelling techniques, which were needed in both cases of evidence, to illustrate an effective, capturing and plausible new narrative.