American expansion, says Richard Drinnon, is characterized by repression and racism. In his reinterpretation of "winning" the West, Drinnon links racism with colonialism and traces this interrelationship from the Pequot War in New England, through American expansion westward to the Pacific, and beyond to the Phillippines and Vietnam. He cites parrallels between the slaughter of bison on the Great Plains and the defoliation of Vietnam and notes similarities in the language of aggression used in the American West, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Richard Drinnon is Professor Emeritus of History at Bucknell University and the author of White Savage: The Case of John Dunn Hunter and Keeper of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Myer and American Racism, among other books.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
33 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A work of incredible historical significance.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building (Paperback)
"To all appearances," wrote Richard Drinnon, "it all began innocently enough with a first victim" (Indian-Hating 35). Indeed, in Drinnon's 'Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building,'those first victims finally have the chance to tell their story through the records of their conquerors. From John Endicott's war on the Niantics and Pequots, to the horrors of the My Lai massacre, Drinnon illustrates, with passion, power and unrelenting wit, how Indian-hating in the Americas became a national pastime, and how that same hate was turned against the native populations of the Phillipines and Southeast Asia. A tremendous feat of scholarship that should not be missed.
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant, eye opening and well-researched,
By
This review is from: Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building (Paperback)
A very good analysis, ocassioanlly one-sided, but the side he takes is that of the weak.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
First Sentence:
IN MAY 1968 Robert Lowell's play Endecott and the Red Cross opened at the American Place Theater in New York. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
secret proconsul, merciless savages, insular government, abbreviated references, meeting point between savagery, war managers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Henry Adams, Mary Austin, John Hay, John Endicott, Merry Mount, John Adams, John Fiske, White House, Native Americans, Daniel Boone, North America, Block Island, Thomas Morton, Manifest Destiny, John Quincy Adams, New English Canaan, South Vietnam, War Department, Theodore Roosevelt, James Hall, South Seas, Timothy Dwight, World's Fair New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
IN MAY 1968 Robert Lowell's play Endecott and the Red Cross opened at the American Place Theater in New York. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
secret proconsul, merciless savages, insular government, abbreviated references, meeting point between savagery, war managers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Henry Adams, Mary Austin, John Hay, John Endicott, Merry Mount, John Adams, John Fiske, White House, Native Americans, Daniel Boone, North America, Block Island, Thomas Morton, Manifest Destiny, John Quincy Adams, New English Canaan, South Vietnam, War Department, Theodore Roosevelt, James Hall, South Seas, Timothy Dwight, World's Fair New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
70
books
cite this book:
See all 70 books citing this book
- Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things by Ann Laura Stoler on page 172, and Back Matter
- Facing the Other: Ethical Disruption and the American Mind (Horizons in Theory and American Culture) by Linda Bolton on page 109, and Back Matter
- Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire by Sarah Watts in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies (New Americanists) by William V. Spanos in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Pequots in Southern New England: The Fall and Rise of an American Indian Nation (Civilization of the American Indian Series) by Laurence M. Hauptman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
See all 70 books citing this book
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product).
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
![American Culture [under construction]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61f%2B7EkDHmL._AA60_.jpg)
