A Post-Exceptionalist Perspective on Early American History [electronic resource] : American Wests, Global Wests, and Indian Wars /
Kakel III, Carroll P.author.
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.
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.
1. Introduction: Explaining Early America -- 2. Neo-European Wests: Frontiers of Empire, 1607–1754 -- 3. America's First West: The Trans-Appalachian West, 1754–1815 -- 4. America's Farther West: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1815–1890 -- 5. The Global West: Other Wests and Indian Wars, 1890–1919 -- 6. The Global West: Other Wests and Indian Wars, 1919–1945 -- 7. Conclusion: Understanding Early America.
United States-History.
Imperialism.
World history.
Historiography.
US History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Historiography and Method.