A post-exceptionalist perspective on early American history : American Wests, global Wests, and Indian wars /
Challenging the still widely held notion that American history is somehow exceptional or unique, this book argues that early America is best understood as a settler-colonial supplanting society. As Kakel shows, this society undertook the violent theft of Indigenous land and resources on a massive sc...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2019]
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| Series: | Palgrave pivot.
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| Summary: | Challenging the still widely held notion that American history is somehow exceptional or unique, this book argues that early America is best understood as a settler-colonial supplanting society. As Kakel shows, this society undertook the violent theft of Indigenous land and resources on a massive scale, and was driven by a logic of elimination and a genocidal imperative to rid the new white settler living space of its existing Indigenous inhabitants. |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 138 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-132) and index. |
| ISBN: | 3030213048 9783030213046 |