ISBN10: 0195085574, ISBN13: 9780195085570, [publisher: TRADE: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS] Softcover *NEW!* All of our orders are sent with tracking information when possible.
[Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1993]

ISBN10: 0195085574, ISBN13: 9780195085570, [publisher: OUP USA 1994-10-13, New York] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1994]

ISBN10: 0195085574, ISBN13: 9780195085570, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. 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, theEuropean 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 theenormous 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, typicallyresulting 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 intoancient European and ...

ISBN10: 0195085574, ISBN13: 9780195085570, [publisher: Oxford University Press OUP] Softcover pp. xv + 358
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1993]

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[North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1993]