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Surviving Genocide - Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas (Paperback)
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Surviving Genocide - Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas (Paperback)
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The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation
brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion "An elegant,
organized narrative of the United States' dispossession of Native
lands east of the Mississippi. . . . A remarkable book in its
breadth and scope."-Ashley Riley Sousa, Canadian Journal of History
"Intense and well-researched, . . . ambitious, . . . magisterial. .
. . Surviving Genocide sets a bar from which subsequent scholarship
and teaching cannot retreat."-Peter Nabokov, New York Review of
Books In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume
history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied
on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force
to remove or slaughter Indians in the way of U.S. expansion. He
charts the losses that Indians suffered from relentless violence
and upheaval and the attendant effects of disease, deprivation, and
exposure. This volume centers on the eastern United States from the
1750s to the start of the Civil War. An authoritative contribution
to the history of the United States' violent path toward building a
continental empire, this ambitious and well-researched book deepens
our understanding of the seizure of Indigenous lands, including the
use of treaties to create the appearance of Native consent to
dispossession. Ostler also documents the resilience of Native
people, showing how they survived genocide by creating alliances,
defending their towns, and rebuilding their communities.
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