The study of Native Americans has expanded greatly within the past 20 years. Ned Blackhawk looks at the recent historiography in this field, and shows how this expanding focus has reshaped significant
Volume II documents and analyses genocide and extermination throughout the early modern and modern eras. It tracks their global expansion as European and Asian imperialisms, and Euroamerican settler colonialism, spread across the globe before the Great War, forging new frontiers and impacting Indigenous communities in Europe, Asia, North America, Africa, and Australia. Twenty-five historians with expertise on specific regions explore examples on five continents, providing comparisons of nine cases of conventional imperialism with nineteen of settler colonialism, and offering a substantial basis for assessing the various factors leading to genocide. This volume also considers cases where genocide did not occur, permitting a global consideration of the role of imperialism and settler-Indigenous relations from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries. It ends with six pre-1918 cases from Australia, China, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe that can be seen as 'premonitions' of the
American Indians remain familiar as icons, yet poorly understood as historical agents. In this ambitious book that ranges across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California (a region kn
獲2023美國國家圖書獎 (Nation Book Award) 非虛構書籍(Non-Fiction) 獎項Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction • A National BestsellerA Publishers Weekly Top 10 Best Book of 2023A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America“Eloquent and comprehensive. . . . In the book's sweeping synthesis, standard flashpoints of U.S. history take on new meaning."—Kathleen DuVal, Wall Street Journal“In accounts of American history, Indigenous peoples are often treated as largely incidental—either obstacles to be overcome or part of a narrative separate from the arc of nation-building. Blackhawk . . . [shows] that Native communities have, instead, been inseparable from the American story all along."— Washington Post Book World, “Books to Read in 2023"The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long
A compelling study that charts the influence of Indigenous thinkers on Franz Boas, the father of American anthropology In 1911, the publication of Franz Boas’s The Mind of Primitive Man
Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawa:ke, a r
Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawa:ke, a r
A fresh exploration of Native American art that positions the work within the broader context of North American art history This landmark publication presents Native American art within the broader co
