Surviving Genocide

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780300255362 Author(s): Jeffrey Ostler Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2020 Publisher: Yale University Press Pages: 544

Description: The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion'An elegant, organized narrative of the United States' dispossession of Native lands east of the Mississippi.A‚ . . . AA‚ remarkable book in its breadth and scope.'A?Ashley Riley Sousa,A‚ Canadian Journal of History'Intense and well-researched, . . . ambitious, . . . magisterial. . . . Surviving Genocide sets a bar from which subsequent scholarship and teaching cannot retreat.'A?Peter Nabokov, New York Review of Books In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force to remove or slaughter Indians in the way of U.S. expansion. He charts the losses that Indians suffered from relentless violence and upheaval and the attendant effects of disease, deprivation, and exposure. This volume centers on the eastern United States from the 1750s to the start of the Civil War. A‚  An authoritative contribution to the history of the United StatesA? violent path toward building a continental empire, this ambitious and well-researched book deepens our understanding of the seizure of Indigenous lands, including the use of treaties to create the appearance of Native consent to dispossession. Ostler also documents the resilience of Native people, showing how they survived genocide by creating alliances, defending their towns, and rebuilding their communities.

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