American Settler Colonialism
Subtitle: A History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Dec 05, 2013
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781137374257
Description: "Over the course of three centuries, American settlers spread throughout North America and beyond, driving out indigenous populations to establish exclusive and permanent homelands of their own. In doing so, they helped to create the richest and most powerful nation in human history, even as they caused the death and displacement of millions of people. This groundbreaking historical synthesis demonstrates that the United States is and has always been fundamentally a settler colonial society--and, indeed, that its growth as a country represents the most sweeping, violent, and significant instance of the phenomenon in history. Linking episodes too often treated in isolation--including Indian removal, the Mexican and Civil Wars, and the settlement of Alaska and Hawaii--it upends many familiar categories of U.S. history and presents a compelling yet disturbing framework through which to understand America's rise to global dominance"--Publisher's Web site.
Notes: Source title: American Settler Colonialism: A History