Hamalainen Pekka
Hamalainen Pekka - Indigenous Continent The Epic Contest For North America - Paperback
Hamalainen Pekka - Indigenous Continent The Epic Contest For North America - Paperback
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Description: There is an old deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus discovers a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches. The European empires rush over eager to stake out as much of this astonishing New World as possible. Though Indigenous peoples fight back they cannot stop the onslaught. White imperialists are destined to rule the continent and history is an irreversible march toward Indigenous destruction. Yet as with other long - accepted origin stories this one too turns out to be based in myth and distortion. In Indigenous Continent acclaimed historian Pekka H m l inen presents a sweeping counter - narrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history. Shifting our perspective away from Jamestown Plymouth Rock the Revolution and other well - trodden episodes on the conventional timeline he depicts a sovereign world of Native nations whose members far from helpless victims of colonial violence dominated the continent for centuries after the first European arrivals. From the Iroquois in the Northeast to the Comanches on the Plains and from the Pueblos in the Southwest to the Cherokees in the Southeast Native nations frequently decimated white newcomers in battle. Even as the white population exploded and colonists land greed grew more extravagant Indigenous peoples flourished due to sophisticated diplomacy and leadership structures. By 1776, various colonial powers claimed nearly all of the continent but Indigenous peoples still controlled it as H m l inen points out the maps in modern textbooks that paint much of North America in neat colour - coded blocks confuse outlandish imperial boasts for actual holdings. In fact Native power peaked in the late nineteenth century with the Lakota victory in 1876 at Little Big Horn which was not an American blunder but an all - too - expected outcome. H m l inen ultimately contends that the very notion of colonial America is misleading and that we should speak instead of an Indigenous America that was only slowly and unevenly becoming colonial. The evidence of Indigenous defiance is apparent today in the hundreds of Native nations that still dot the United States and Canada. Necessary reading for anyone who cares about America's past present and future Indigenous Continent restores Native peoples to their rightful place at the very fulcrum of American history.
Title: Indigenous Continent The Epic Contest For North America
Author(s): Hamalainen Pekka
Publisher: Ww Norton & Co
Barcode: 9781324094067
Pages: 592 Pages, 42 Black-And-White Images And 10 Maps
Publication Date: 9/12/2023
Category: History Of The Americas
Description: There is an old deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus discovers a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches. The European empires rush over eager to stake out as much of this astonishing New World as possible. Though Indigenous peoples fight back they cannot stop the onslaught. White imperialists are destined to rule the continent and history is an irreversible march toward Indigenous destruction. Yet as with other long - accepted origin stories this one too turns out to be based in myth and distortion. In Indigenous Continent acclaimed historian Pekka H m l inen presents a sweeping counter - narrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history. Shifting our perspective away from Jamestown Plymouth Rock the Revolution and other well - trodden episodes on the conventional timeline he depicts a sovereign world of Native nations whose members far from helpless victims of colonial violence dominated the continent for centuries after the first European arrivals. From the Iroquois in the Northeast to the Comanches on the Plains and from the Pueblos in the Southwest to the Cherokees in the Southeast Native nations frequently decimated white newcomers in battle. Even as the white population exploded and colonists land greed grew more extravagant Indigenous peoples flourished due to sophisticated diplomacy and leadership structures. By 1776, various colonial powers claimed nearly all of the continent but Indigenous peoples still controlled it as H m l inen points out the maps in modern textbooks that paint much of North America in neat colour - coded blocks confuse outlandish imperial boasts for actual holdings. In fact Native power peaked in the late nineteenth century with the Lakota victory in 1876 at Little Big Horn which was not an American blunder but an all - too - expected outcome. H m l inen ultimately contends that the very notion of colonial America is misleading and that we should speak instead of an Indigenous America that was only slowly and unevenly becoming colonial. The evidence of Indigenous defiance is apparent today in the hundreds of Native nations that still dot the United States and Canada. Necessary reading for anyone who cares about America's past present and future Indigenous Continent restores Native peoples to their rightful place at the very fulcrum of American history.
Title: Indigenous Continent The Epic Contest For North America
Author(s): Hamalainen Pekka
Publisher: Ww Norton & Co
Barcode: 9781324094067
Pages: 592 Pages, 42 Black-And-White Images And 10 Maps
Publication Date: 9/12/2023
Category: History Of The Americas
