Indigenous continent : the epic contest for North America
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- ISBN: 9781631496998
- ISBN: 1631496999
- ISBN: 9781631497506
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xiv, 571 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-538) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : The myth of colonial America -- The world on the turtle's back -- The egalitarian continent -- Blind conquests -- Terra nullius -- The Powhatan empire -- Wars at the water's edge -- The Pequots shall no more be called Pequots -- The rise of the five nations league -- Enemies of the faith -- The power of weakness -- The English as a little child -- Metacom's challenge -- Virginia's civil and uncivil wars -- The great southwestern rebellion -- Holding the line -- They smelled like alligators -- An infinity of rancherías -- Magic dogs -- Wars to the end of the world -- British America besieged -- Worldly and otherworldly wars of independence -- A second Chinese wall -- The American crucible -- Western promises -- The white devil with his mouth wide open -- The long removal era -- The Comanche ascendancy -- The Lakota shield -- Epilogue : Revenge and revival. |
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Indigenous Continent : The Epic Contest for North America
Pekka Hämäläinen is Rhodes Professor of American History at the University of Oxford and the author of The Comanche Empire , winner of the Bancroft Prize, and Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power . He lives in Oxford, England.