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American settler colonialism : a history /
Over the course of three centuries, American settlers spread throughout North America and beyond, driving out Indigenous populations to establish exclusive and permanent homelands of their own. In doing so, they helped to create the richest and most powerful nation in human history, even as they cau...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Over the course of three centuries, American settlers spread throughout North America and beyond, driving out Indigenous populations to establish exclusive and permanent homelands of their own. In doing so, they helped to create the richest and most powerful nation in human history, even as they caused the death and displacement of millions of people. This groundbreaking historical synthesis demonstrates that the United States is and has always been fundamentally a settler colonial society - and, indeed, that its growth as a country represents the most sweeping, violent, and significant instance of the phenomenon in history. Linking episodes too often treated in isolation - including Indian removal, the Mexican and Civil Wars, and the settlement of Alaska and Hawaii - it upends many familiar categories of US history and presents a compelling yet disturbing framework through which to understand America's rise to global dominance. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-245) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137374264 1137374268 1137374241 9781137374240 |