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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Writings on American History
Author: Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Proceedings
Author: Proceedings of the Twentyfirst International Congress of Americanists
Author: Studies in American Folklife
Author: American Holocaust
Author: David E. StannardPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199838984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people. Indeed, as historian David E. Stannard argues in this stunning new book, the European and white American destruction of the native peoples of the Americas was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. Stannard begins with a portrait of the enormous richness and diversity of life in the Americas prior to Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492. He then follows the path of genocide from the Indies to Mexico and Central and South America, then north to Florida, Virginia, and New England, and finally out across the Great Plains and Southwest to California and the North Pacific Coast. Stannard reveals that wherever Europeans or white Americans went, the native people were caught between imported plagues and barbarous atrocities, typically resulting in the annihilation of 95 percent of their populations. What kind of people, he asks, do such horrendous things to others? His highly provocative answer: Christians. Digging deeply into ancient European and Christian attitudes toward sex, race, and war, he finds the cultural ground well prepared by the end of the Middle Ages for the centuries-long genocide campaign that Europeans and their descendants launched--and in places continue to wage--against the New World's original inhabitants. Advancing a thesis that is sure to create much controversy, Stannard contends that the perpetrators of the American Holocaust drew on the same ideological wellspring as did the later architects of the Nazi Holocaust. It is an ideology that remains dangerously alive today, he adds, and one that in recent years has surfaced in American justifications for large-scale military intervention in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. At once sweeping in scope and meticulously detailed, American Holocaust is a work of impassioned scholarship that is certain to ignite intense historical and moral debate.
Quichean Civilization
Author: Robert M. CarmackPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520415116
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Languages : en
Pages : 460
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A Journey
Author: Wilfrid AmisialPublisher: AuthorHouse
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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On this pleasant day in 1947, my dad and my mom were wed. Their mutual Love united with their parental agreement as well as all the good wishes of relatives and friends led their close relationship of seven annual anniversaries of friendship to share this secret openly. My mom was born during the last week of August 1922 and my dad during the first week of October 1914. They met a few weeks before my Dad attended the piano recital where my mom at the age of 18 years old played the Blue Danube.
Leonard Bloomfield
Author: John G. FoughtPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415174497
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This set reprints key journal articles originally published between 1915 and 1995, and covers all of the major assessments of Bloomfield's work.
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