Title: A Post-Exceptionalist Perspective on Early American History
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.
Subjects: United states, history, North america, history, West (u.s.), history, America, history, White people, Relations with Indians, Exceptionalism, Imperialism, History