A Post-Exceptionalist Perspective on Early American History
Subtitle: American Wests, Global Wests, and Indian Wars
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: Aug 17, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9783030213046
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: A Post-Exceptionalist Perspective on Early American History: American Wests, Global Wests, and Indian Wars