American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New WorldOxford University Press, 18/11/1993 - 416 من الصفحات 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, 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. Stannard begins with a portrait of the enormous 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, typically resulting 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 into ancient European and Christian attitudes toward sex, race, and war, he finds the cultural ground well prepared by the end of the Middle Ages for the centuries-long genocide campaign that Europeans and their descendants launched--and in places continue to wage--against the New World's original inhabitants. Advancing a thesis that is sure to create much controversy, Stannard contends that the perpetrators of the American Holocaust drew on the same ideological wellspring as did the later architects of the Nazi Holocaust. It is an ideology that remains dangerously alive today, he adds, and one that in recent years has surfaced in American justifications for large-scale military intervention in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. At once sweeping in scope and meticulously detailed, American Holocaust is a work of impassioned scholarship that is certain to ignite intense historical and moral debate. |
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... African slave trade , to keep in mind the treasure of a single life in order to avoid becoming emotionally anesthetized by the sheer force of such overwhelming human evil and destruction . There is , for ex- ample , the case of a small ...
... African slave trade , to keep in mind the treasure of a single life in order to avoid becoming emotionally anesthetized by the sheer force of such overwhelming human evil and destruction . There is , for ex- ample , the case of a small ...
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... Africa , or anywhere else beyond the Indies and the North and South American continents , had ever heard of this exotic place of such dazzling magnificence . Who were these people ? Where had they come from ? When had they come ? How ...
... Africa , or anywhere else beyond the Indies and the North and South American continents , had ever heard of this exotic place of such dazzling magnificence . Who were these people ? Where had they come from ? When had they come ? How ...
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... Africa ) , the now - submerged land that we refer to as Berengia was the homeland of innumerable com- munities of these people for thousands upon thousands of years - for a span of time , for example , many times greater than that ...
... Africa ) , the now - submerged land that we refer to as Berengia was the homeland of innumerable com- munities of these people for thousands upon thousands of years - for a span of time , for example , many times greater than that ...
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... Africa , for instance , Ali A. Mazrui makes the cogent point that ethnocentrism has so shaped Western perceptions of geography that the very maps of the world found in our homes and offices and classrooms , based on the famous Mer ...
... Africa , for instance , Ali A. Mazrui makes the cogent point that ethnocentrism has so shaped Western perceptions of geography that the very maps of the world found in our homes and offices and classrooms , based on the famous Mer ...
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... Africa when in fact Africa contains in excess of 2,000,000 more square miles of land . A proportional cartographic distortion also affects the comparative depictions of Africa and Europe . Thus , the literal " picture " of Africa in ...
... Africa when in fact Africa contains in excess of 2,000,000 more square miles of land . A proportional cartographic distortion also affects the comparative depictions of Africa and Europe . Thus , the literal " picture " of Africa in ...
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PESTILENCE AND GENOCIDE | 56 |
SEX RACE AND HOLY WAR | 148 |
APPENDIXES | 259 |
Acknowledgments | 283 |
Notes | 285 |
Index | 347 |
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