Description: This demographic overview of North American Indian history describes in detail the holocaust that, even today, white Americans tend to dismiss as an unfortunate concomitant of Manifest Destiny. They wish to forget that, as Euro-Americans invaded North America and prospered in the "New World," the numbers of native peoples declined sharply; entire tribes, often in the space of a few years, were "wiped from the face of the earth."The fires of the holocaust that consumed American Indians blazed in the fevers of newly encountered diseases, the flash of settlers’ and soldiers’ guns, the ravages of "firewater," and the scorched-earth policies of the white invaders. Russell Thornton describes how the holocaust had as its causes disease, warfare and genocide, removal and relocation, and destruction of aboriginal ways of life.Until recently most scholars seemed reluctant to speculate about North Amer…condition info: Has a sturdy binding with some shelf wear. Pages have little to no markings.
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EAN: 9780806122205
Book Title: American Indian Holocaust and Survival : a Population History since 1492
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Topic: United States / 19th Century, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Native American
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 1990
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, History
Item Weight: 17.3 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Russell Thornton
Item Width: 6 in
Book Series: The Civilization of the American Indian Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
