
The Invention of American Tradition
Revolution and Ideology
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Afghanistan
Geographer bowton goes through sources of the time, and discusses the works of people like thomas morton and william wood. He shows specific language that they are using to about this very deserted land that they are going to basically claim and tame. And we even romanticize it, right? Like in one of our prior mythas america episodes, talk about the narrative of pocahontus. Because then it forgives us of all the sins that the colonists then committed against those people.
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