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American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World Revised ed. Edition

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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.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0195085574
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0195085570
  3. Edition
    Revised ed.
  4. Publisher
    Oxford University Press
  5. Publication date
    November 18, 1993
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    9.2 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
  8. Print length
    416 pages
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Customers find this book to be a well-researched and honest historical account that should be required reading. The writing quality receives positive feedback, with one customer describing it as eye-opening and detailed. The graphic content is appreciated, with one review noting its brutally honest look at the subject matter. However, some customers find the violence level disturbing, with one describing it as too gory.

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Customers praise the historical accuracy of the book, describing it as a well-researched and honest account of the conquest of the New World, making it a must-read for those seeking historical facts.

"...as disturbing as this one is but I love that it's well-written and documented and it exposes some horrendous events in the history of the Americas..." Read more

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Customers find the book highly readable, with several describing it as an amazing and excellent read that should be required reading. One customer mentions it keeps them wanting to read more, while another notes it's worth every minute and penny.

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Customers praise the writing quality of the book, with one customer noting its eye-opening and detailed approach, while another appreciates its concise style.

"...a book that is as disturbing as this one is but I love that it's well-written and documented and it exposes some horrendous events in the history of..." Read more

"...VERY VERY well thought through. I thought it ended in a bit of an odd spot (time), but iʼm sure that was intentional...." Read more

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"...David Stannard does not mince words and invites you to understand exactly what happened to the native peoples of the North and South American..." Read more

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Customers appreciate the graphic content of the book, with one customer noting its brutally honest look and another mentioning the beautiful cities depicted.

"...The book contains graphic, disturbing descriptions of the cruelty done to the natives by men who have long been esteemed for their alleged..." Read more

"...First hand accounts of the beautiful cities, food production, and lack of violence that made up a culture which was far advanced of anything in..." Read more

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"First chapter a bit tedious,but moves swiftly after that. Some graphic, interesting material. This joins the best of my bookshelf." Read more

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  • AlanWarner
    5.0 out of 5 stars EXTINCTION
    Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2015
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    Normally when the word extinct is used it is in reference to animals but after reading this book this term can legitimately be used to describe what happened to the original citizens of America the American Indians. Christopher Columbus and his minions (I refuse to call them soldiers) savagely murdered and killed countless numbers of these Indians, a vivid example of this is given on page 83 " One favorite sport of the conquistadors was "dogging." Traveling as they did with packs of armored wolfhounds and mastiffs that were on a diet of human flesh and were trained to disembowel Indians, the Spanish used the dogs to terrorize slaves and to entertain the troops. An entire book Dogs of the Conquest, has been published recently, detailing the exploits of these animals as they accompanied their masters throughout the course of the Spanish depredations. "A properly fleshed dog," these authors say, "could pursue a 'savage' as zealously and effectively as a deer or a boar.... To many of the conquerors, the Indian was merely another savage animal, and the dogs were trained to pursue and rip apart their human quarry with the same zest as they felt when hunting wild beasts." And also on pages 83-84 "Just as the Spanish soldiers seem to have particularly enjoyed testing the sharpness of their yard-long rapier blades on the bodies of Indian children, so their dogs seemed to find the soft bodies of infants especially tasty, and thus the accounts of the invading conquistadors and the padres who traveled with them are filled with detailed descriptions of young Indian children routinely taken from their parents and fed to the hungry animals. Men who could take pleasure in this sort of thing had little trouble with less sensitive matters, such as the sacking and burning of entire cities and towns, and the destruction of books and tablets containing millennia of accumulated knowledge, wisdom, and religious belief."
    After page 146 there's an illustrated unnumbered section titled Genocide the first nine pages of this section contain pictures of how the Spanish tortured and killed Indian women and children as stated on the second page of this section "[The Spaniards] took babies from their mothers' breasts, grabbing them by the feet and smashing their heads against rocks...They built a long gibbet, low enough for the toes to touch the ground and prevent strangling, and hanged thirteen [natives] at a time in honor of Christ Our Saviour and the twelve Apostles. Then, straw was wrapped around their torn bodies and they were burned alive."
    Not to be outdone the good old American cavalry also engaged in its' fair share of savage murder and killing as can be seen from the bottom of page126 to the top of page 127 "They turned their guns, Hotchkiss guns, etc., upon the women who were in the lodges standing under a flag of truce, and of course as soon as they were fired upon they fled....There was a woman with an infant in her arms who was killed as she almost touched the flag of truce, and the women and children of course were strewn all along the circular village until they were dispatched. Right near the flag of truce a mother was shot down with her infant; the child not knowing that its mother was dead was still nursing, and that was especially a very sad sight. The women as they were fleeing with their babes were killed together, shot right through, and the women who were very heavy with child were also killed." I personally do not celebrate Columbus Day and Thanksgiving Day this book is ample proof and evidence as to why these two days should be set aside as a time for mourning not celebration, if you want your children to have a true understanding of American history then I strongly urge you to buy this book and have it as part of your home library.
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  • The Godfather
    5.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing but necessary read
    Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2018
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    Feels strange saying that I love a book that is as disturbing as this one is but I love that it's well-written and documented and it exposes some horrendous events in the history of the Americas as well as the world. Americans may well point fingers at the Nazis (and deservedly so) but it's a case of people in glass houses throwing stones. There is no question as to the repulsiveness and inhumanity of the genocide and mass murders perpetrated in Nazi Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao's China, the Khmer Rouge's Cambodia, and in a host of African nations, to name a few; but in our own not too distant past similar atrocities were perpetrated on the native populations of the Americas by the Spanish, Portuguese, British, and colonists/Americans. While the inhumanity elsewhere in the world is touched upon to show where the mindset of this barbarity likely originated, the focus is on the impact in the Americas -- North, South, and Central. The book contains graphic, disturbing descriptions of the cruelty done to the natives by men who have long been esteemed for their alleged contributions in history. Most notably Christopher Columbus. In my time in grade school, he and the many other conquistadors and explorers were portrayed and men of courage and integrity. This book paints a different picture of them as greedy, bloodthirsty, remorseless killers of peoples who they considered inhuman or subhuman. More troubling is Christianity's participation in these actions. Not to blame Christianity for initiating it but to indict it for condoning and even commending the events. Peaceful races of people minding their own business, living in communities well planned and constructed and advanced for their time, and who welcomed the interlopers were obliterated them. Much of the death and destruction was caused by the introduction of European diseases such as smallpox that killed tens of millions but a large part was also caused by actions of odious proportions. Entire civilizations such as the Aztec and the Inca and the Arawak whose artifacts have since been admired and sought after were wiped off the face of the earth. Tens of millions of people slaughtered. Men, women, children butchered. In numbers likely to exceed those of the aforementioned genocides combined. The purpose being to acquire their lands and their riches. Considered to be no more than animals needed to be exterminated. This is our history.

    This book should be required reading for everyone. The graphic descriptions of the savagery should cause outrage not only for the acts themselves but for a cultures that has covered up their crimes for centuries. And the holocaust has not ended yet.
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  • Dawn Dillman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly as described
    Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2025
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    My son loves the books. He is an avid reader. Excellent ordering experience
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  • Harinder Jadwani
    5.0 out of 5 stars INDISPENSABLE SURVEY OF THE GREATEST HOLOCAUST IN HISTORY
    Reviewed in Canada on May 29, 2019
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    To understand the world we live in, the conquest of the Americas with the wiping out of perhaps 95% of the more than 100 million people that populated the Americas, not just by disease but by brutal, genocidal butchery - in 'British America' as an end in itself because that is what freed up North America for the Europeans; and in 'Latin America' for the economic purpose of looting the continent's gold and silver mined by the tens of millions worked to death in the mines by the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadors. But in either case - genocide - which has been largely erased from official Western memory with falsehoods and deceit. The Nazis have long been castigated for the wiping out of 6 million Jews. Little is said about the far more brutal murder of nearly 100 million 'Red Indians' by Spain, Portugal, Britain....
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  • Dans
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente trabajo
    Reviewed in Spain on July 24, 2020
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    Es un inglés académico y complejo, pero si se tiene un mínimo de nivel merece muchísimo la pena. Es una vergüenza que no se encuentre traducido al castellano
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    Reviewed in Spain on July 24, 2020
    Es un inglés académico y complejo, pero si se tiene un mínimo de nivel merece muchísimo la pena. Es una vergüenza que no se encuentre traducido al castellano
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  • Ranjith
    5.0 out of 5 stars A forgotten genocide.
    Reviewed in India on September 24, 2022
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    Never knew human beings can be so brutal till I read this. Shocking to read the ways in which natives were killed by white, European christians.
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  • a. m.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fondamentale per capire e riflettere
    Reviewed in Italy on August 2, 2015
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    Un'opera fondamentale per comprendere non solo come la conquista delle Americhe da parte degli europei ha portato allo sterminio di intere civiltà ma anche per capire le motivazioni che sono alla radice dei fatti storici.
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  • Anna
    5.0 out of 5 stars Simply devastating
    Reviewed in Germany on March 27, 2025
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    It took me a solid year to read through this book simply because I had to constantly take breaks to process it. This book should be in everyone's library. No words can describe what reading this feels like, how it changes you.
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