Indigenous Continent : A New History Of America

Hämäläinen, Pekka, 1967- author.

EBook 2022

"This nation's history and self-understanding have long depended on the notion of a "colonial America," an epoch that supposedly laid the foundation for the modern United States. In Indigenous Continent, Pekka Hämäläinen overturns the traditional, Eurocentric narrative, demonstrating that, far from being weak and helpless "victims" of European colonialism, Indigenous peoples controlled North America well into the 19th century. From the Iroquoi...

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9781631497506

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Electronic reproduction. New York Liveright 2022 Available via World Wide Web

Contents:

Introduction: The end of colonial America
The world on the turtle's back
The egalitarian continent
Blind conquests
The myth of the inviting continent
The Powhatan empire
Wars at the water's edge
The Pequots shall no more be called Pequots
The rise of the five nations league
Enemies of the faith
The power of weakness
The English as a little child
Metacom's challenge
Virginia's civil and uncivil wars
The great southwestern rebellion
Holding the line
They smelled like alligators
An infinity of rancherías
Magic dogs
Wars to the end of the world
British America besieged
Worldly and otherworldly wars of independence
A second Chinese wall
The American crucible
Western promises
The white devil with his mouth wide open
The long removal era
The rise of the Comanche empire
The Lakota shield
Epilogue: Revenge and revival

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3214026

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