Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest For North America Pekka Hamalainen Ww Norton Co Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

There Is An Old Deeply Rooted Story About America That Goes Like This: Columbus “Discovers” A Strange Continent And Brings Back Tales Of Untold Riches The European Empires Rush Over Eager To Stake Out As Much This Astonishing “New World” Possible Though Indigenous Peoples Fight They Cannot Stop Onslaught White Imperialists Are Destined Rule History Irreversible March Toward Destruction Yet With Other Long-Accepted Origin Stories One Too Turns Be Based In Myth Distortion Acclaimed Historian Pekka Hämäläinen Presents Sweeping Counter-Narrative Shatters Most Basic Assumptions American Shifting Our Perspective Away From Jamestown Plymouth Rock Revolution Well-Trodden Episodes On Conventional Timeline He Depicts Sovereign World Native Nations Whose Members Far Helpless Victims Colonial Violence Dominated For Centuries After First Arrivals Iroquois Northeast Comanches Plains Pueblos Southwest Cherokees Southeast Frequently Decimated Newcomers Battle Even Population Exploded Colonists’ Land Greed Grew More Extravagant Flourished Due Sophisticated Diplomacy Leadership Structures By 1776 Various Powers Claimed Nearly All But Still Controlled It—As Points Maps Modern Textbooks Paint North Neat Colour-Coded Blocks Confuse Outlandish Imperial Boasts Actual Holdings Fact Power Peaked Late Nineteenth Century Lakota Victory 1876 At Little Big Horn Which Was Not Blunder All-Too-Expected Outcome Ultimately Contends Very Notion “Colonial America” Misleading We Should Speak Instead “Indigenous Only Slowly Unevenly Becoming Evidence Defiance Apparent Today Hundreds Dot United States Canada Necessary Reading Anyone Who Cares America’s Past Present Future Restores Their Rightful Place Fulcrum Σελίδες: 592 Έτος Έκδοσης: 1019 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm