ISBN10: 0195085574, ISBN13: 9780195085570, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover
[Miami, FL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1993]

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 ...
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ISBN10: 0195085574, ISBN13: 9780195085570, [publisher: Oxford Univ Pr] Softcover reprint edition. 374 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1994]

ISBN10: 0195085574, ISBN13: 9780195085570, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover Very large, sturdy softcover, glossy wrappers black with gray design in background, yellow and black antique illustration of massacre on center front, red and white lettering, black spine, white back wrapper with praise from Los Angeles Times Book Review, Boston Sunday Globe, Washington Post Book World, Chicago Sunday Tribune, 358 pages with two photo sections. Light wear to bottom front tip, very slight to spine bottom edge. Near Fine.
[New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1993]

Oxford University Press OUP , pp. xv + 358 . Papeback. New. Oxford University Press OUP ISBN 0195085574 9780195085570 [US]

ISBN10: 0195085574, ISBN13: 9780195085570, [publisher: OUP USA] Softcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
[Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1994]

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[Denver, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1993]

ISBN10: 0195085574, ISBN13: 9780195085570, [publisher: Sydney University Press Nov 1993] Softcover Neuware - Stannard says that 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. Moreover, the perpetrators of the American Holocaust drew on the same ideological wellspring as did the later architects of the Nazi Holocaust--an ideology that remains dangerously alive today. Photos and line drawings.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 1993]
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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 ...
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ISBN10: 0195085574, ISBN13: 9780195085570, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc] Softcover 1993. New Ed. Paperback. Arguing that the European and white American destruction of the native American people was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world, Stannard attempts to set the records straight on what befell American Indians over the last five centuries. Num Pages: 416 pages, halftones. BIC Classification: 1K; HBJK; HBTZ; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 544. . . . . .
[Galway, GY, Ireland] [Publication Year: 1994]

ISBN10: 0195085574, ISBN13: 9780195085570, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.3
[North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1993]

ISBN10: 0195085574, ISBN13: 9780195085570, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc] Softcover 1993. New Ed. Paperback. Arguing that the European and white American destruction of the native American people was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world, Stannard attempts to set the records straight on what befell American Indians over the last five centuries. Num Pages: 416 pages, halftones. BIC Classification: 1K; HBJK; HBTZ; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 544. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1993]

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 ...
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