American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492
Thornton, Russell
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The book has the usual library paraphernalia including stickers stamps and markings. The dust jacket has light wear, a couple of very small creases and it is wrapped in protective plastic. The edges of the book are lightly tanned and spotted. 292 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-254mm). Seller Inventory # 76328
Bibliographic Details
Title: American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A ...
Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1987
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Book Type: Ex-Library
About this title
This demographic overview of North American Indian history describes in detail the holocaust that, even today, white Americans tend to dismiss as an unfortunate concomitant of Manifest Destiny. They wish to forget that, as Euro-Americans invaded North America and prospered in the "New World," the numbers of native peoples declined sharply; entire tribes, often in the space of a few years, were "wiped from the face of the earth."
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The fires of the holocaust that consumed American Indians blazed in the fevers of newly encountered diseases, the flash of settlers’ and soldiers’ guns, the ravages of "firewater," and the scorched-earth policies of the white invaders. Russell Thornton describes how the holocaust had as its causes disease, warfare and genocide, removal and relocation, and destruction of aboriginal ways of life.
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Until recently most scholars seemed reluctant to speculate about North American Indian populations in 1492. In this book Thornton discusses in detail how many Indians there were, where they had come from, and how modern scholarship in many disciplines may enable us to make more accurate estimates of aboriginal populations.
Russell Thornton is Professor of Sociology in the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
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