The rediscovery of America : native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history / Ned Blackhawk.
2023
Non-Fiction
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Author
Blackhawk, Ned, author.
Title
The rediscovery of America : native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history / Ned Blackhawk.
Imprint
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Description
viii, 596 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series
Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction. Toward a new American history
Part I. Indians and empires. American genesis: Indians and the Spanish borderlands
The Native Northeast and the rise of British North America
The unpredictability of violence : Iroquoia and New France to 1701
The Native inland sea: the struggle for the heart of the continent, 1701-55
Settler uprising: the Indigenous origins of the American Revolution
Colonialism's constitution : the origins of federal Indian policy
Part II. Struggles for sovereignty. The deluge of settler colonialism : democracy and dispossession in the early republic
Foreign policy formations : California, the Pacific, and the borderlands origins of the Monroe Doctrine
Collapse and total war : the Indigenous West and the U.S. Civil War
Taking children and treaty lands : laws and federal power during the reservation era
Indigenous twilight at the dawn of the century : native activists and the myth of Indian disappearance
From termination to self-determination : Native American sovereignty in the Cold War era.
Part I. Indians and empires. American genesis: Indians and the Spanish borderlands
The Native Northeast and the rise of British North America
The unpredictability of violence : Iroquoia and New France to 1701
The Native inland sea: the struggle for the heart of the continent, 1701-55
Settler uprising: the Indigenous origins of the American Revolution
Colonialism's constitution : the origins of federal Indian policy
Part II. Struggles for sovereignty. The deluge of settler colonialism : democracy and dispossession in the early republic
Foreign policy formations : California, the Pacific, and the borderlands origins of the Monroe Doctrine
Collapse and total war : the Indigenous West and the U.S. Civil War
Taking children and treaty lands : laws and federal power during the reservation era
Indigenous twilight at the dawn of the century : native activists and the myth of Indian disappearance
From termination to self-determination : Native American sovereignty in the Cold War era.
Summary
"The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, as a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non-Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. In this transformative synthesis he shows that: European colonization in the 1600s was never a predetermined success; Native nations helped shape England's crisis of empire; the first shots of the American Revolution were prompted by Indian affairs in the interior; California Indians targeted by federally funded militias were among the first casualties of the Civil War; the Union victory forever recalibrated Native communities across the West; twentieth-century reservation activists refashioned American law and policy. Blackhawk's retelling of U.S. history acknowledges the enduring power, agency, and survival of Indigenous peoples, yielding a truer account of the United States and revealing anew the varied meanings of America." -- Jacket flap.
Note
Maps on lining papers.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-550) and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Blackhawk, Ned. Rediscovery of America. New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2023]
Call Number
Non-Fiction
Language
English
Awards
National Book Award in Nonfiction, 2023.
ISBN
9780300244052 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0300244053 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780300271249 (ePub ebook)
0300244053 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780300271249 (ePub ebook)