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Essay / Research Paper Abstract
This 5 page report discusses the ways
in which 17th and 18th century white European invaders (also known as “colonists”),
radically changed Australia (once known as “New Holland”) when they landed on its
shores. Regardless of the centuries through which the natives of the land had lived on
“their” land and used its resources for their own needs, the Europeans laid claim to the
land and declared to belong to them. Using the doctrine of terra nullius, Latin for “land of
no one,” they claimed that nobody owned the land until they (white men) “discovered”
and claimed it for themselves. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Page Count:
5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BWnewhol.rtf
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its shores. Regardless of the centuries through which the natives of the land had lived on "their" land and used its resources for their own needs, the Europeans laid claim
to the land and declared to belong to them. This repeatedly occurred in locations throughout the Americas, in Africa, in Asia, and certainly in Australia. For those invaders, places did
not truly exist until they were "discovered" by British, French, Spanish, and others. Not surprisingly, the existence of those lands original inhabitants was seen as an impediment to the Europeans
own expansion plans and needed to be dealt with through containment, subjugation, or extinction. Expectations of "New Holland" Many of the explorers and eventual colonists/invaders were motivated to seek
their fortune and freedoms in the "New World" due to the mythologies that developed regarding the riches and opportunities to be found there. For example, Alex S. George (1999) tells
the story of William Dampier and the Dutch East India Companys earliest travels and explorations. Dampier was an Englishman who landed on the shores of New Holland a century before
the arrival of the First Fleet. He and other Dutch adventurers referred to the mainland as Nova Hollandia (Latin for New Holland). It is important for the student working
on this project to understand that European imperialism was about political and national control, as well as commerce. An article in The Economist (12-25-99) explains that in the earliest years
of the 17th century, the Dutch was the worlds leader in international trading: "Amsterdam, trading to the Indies, through the Baltic and with the Americas, was a giant entrepot
for spices and sugar, tobacco, timber, cloth and other manufactures from across the globe; and, not by coincidence, a big financial centre too. The jewel in this crown was the
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