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PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-100300230699
ISBN-139780300230697
eBay Product ID (ePID)237346191
Product Key Features
Book TitleAmerican Genocide : the United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
Number of Pages520 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2017
TopicUnited States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / 19th Century, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Native American
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, History
AuthorBenjamin Madley
Book SeriesThe LaMar Series in Western History Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight24.1 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingAn
Reviews" An American Genocide provides one of the most detailed and stunning narratives of violence, murder, and state-sponsored genocide in North America, making this book a major achievement in the fields of both Native American history and Genocide Studies."--Ned Blackhawk (Yale University), author of Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West "Madley has far exceeded previous scholarship in making a persuasive case for concluding that what happened to California Indians from 1846 to 1873 qualifies as genocide."--Jeffrey Ostler (University of Oregon), author of The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee "This book is a powerful contribution to the study of Native Americans, to California history, and to genocide studies as a whole. It should be read by every Californian."--Norman Naimark (Stanford University), author of Stalin's Genocides "Benjamin Madley has changed the conversation on genocide and American Indians. After An American Genocide, it will no longer be possible to debate whether or not genocide took place. Instead we will need to confront the questions of how and why genocide against American Indians took place and what the United States owes its indigenous communities."--Karl Jacoby (Columbia University), author of Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History "Benjamin Madley's book is brilliant, unsettling, and necessary. It will change forever how we understand the history of California, and it will make historians of other places and periods wonder what they have missed. An American Genocide will have a long legacy."--Pekka Hmlinen (Oxford University), author of The Comanche Empire
Dewey Decimal979.400497
SynopsisThe first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide. Madley describes pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $1,700,000 on campaigns against California Indians. Besides evaluating government officials' culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other possible genocides within and beyond the Americas might be investigated using the methods presented in this groundbreaking book., The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Winner of the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Award for History and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Gruesomely thorough. . . . Others have described some of these campaigns, but never in such strong terms and with so much blame placed directly on the United States government."--Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, Indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide. Madley describes pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $1.7 million on campaigns against California Indians. Besides evaluating government officials' culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other possible genocides within and beyond the Americas might be investigated using the methods presented in this groundbreaking book.
LC Classification NumberE78.C15M33 2017
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- 28. Jun. 2023
You just gotta read this!
This is a sad story that needed telling in the succinct manner Madley accomplished. We all suspected that the California Indians were mistreated in the 19th century, but we were not aware of the magnitude of the machine that was out to kill them and seize their land. The settlers, gold miners, governmental officials, the military, free land, and the Homestead act of 1862 brought death to thousands of Indians and forced removal of thousands more. When an agrarian society met a hunter- gather society, manifest destiny became "the Indian Problem". Force, deception, and outright theft were the methods employed to fix it. Any reprisals by the Indians were met with excessive force and other punitive measures, oftentimes inflicted upon innocent tribes and bands.Read the book. It will open your eyes to our American Genocide.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 12. Nov. 2019
Important Book
This is a really important book and really, all Amerians should know its content.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 04. Aug. 2023
Great read
Awsome historyBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
