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American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History since 1492 (Volume 186) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) Paperback – March 15, 1990
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This demographic overview of North American Indian history describes in detail the holocaust that, even today, white Americans tend to dismiss as an unfortunate concomitant of Manifest Destiny. They wish to forget that, as Euro-Americans invaded North America and prospered in the "New World," the numbers of native peoples declined sharply; entire tribes, often in the space of a few years, were "wiped from the face of the earth."
The fires of the holocaust that consumed American Indians blazed in the fevers of newly encountered diseases, the flash of settlers’ and soldiers’ guns, the ravages of "firewater," and the scorched-earth policies of the white invaders. Russell Thornton describes how the holocaust had as its causes disease, warfare and genocide, removal and relocation, and destruction of aboriginal ways of life.
Until recently most scholars seemed reluctant to speculate about North American Indian populations in 1492. In this book Thornton discusses in detail how many Indians there were, where they had come from, and how modern scholarship in many disciplines may enable us to make more accurate estimates of aboriginal populations.
- Print length312 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherUniversity of Oklahoma Press
- Publication dateMarch 15, 1990
- Dimensions6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
- ISBN-10080612220X
- ISBN-13978-0806122205
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- Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2023One of the comments that peaked my historical views to buy and read this book —
"Russell Thornton describes how the holocaust had as its causes disease, warfare and genocide, removal and relocation, and destruction of aboriginal ways of life." It's a cautioned and relevant read of US factual (but ignored) history.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2016Another book on the tragic way the Indain American was and at times is still being mistreated by the conquering peoples, which really shows how the fore fathers, stole, cheated the very people that provided the help in the first years to the invading peoples.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2016Bought as gift. So not sure how good it was . Sounds good
- Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2014My professor wrote this book. The man people so much love and research into this book. The history of the natives should be known and not forgotten.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2014Real good information, wished everyone could read this. Book is new and cost is good
- Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2020This gives the best estimates of the Indigenous pop. in the US pre-genocide
- Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2015Not what I thought it would be. Mostly facts.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2014Good material but poor format and some poor sourcing.
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dreamerReviewed in Italy on July 3, 20154.0 out of 5 stars per capire il mondo di oggi
Conoscere meglio la storia del mondo, in questo caso in modo dettagliato dal 1492, ci fa vedere in un ottica più obiettiva la "conquista" dell'america, l'epopea del west. Tutto ciò trattato con dati oggettivi. Colombo fu un eroe o qualcosa di diverso? Perchè la decimazione degli American Indians è stata considerata un male necessario? E con che mezzi ? Perchè il loro non deve essere considerato un olocausto? Come mai dopo il loro olocausto, a differenza di altri, gli abitanti originari dell'america sono praticamente scomparsi o ridotti alla povertà? Personalmente trovo utile il confrontare questo olocausto con altri olocausti. E se noi europei avessimo commessi errori che non vogliamo considerare tali? Siamo noi europei i veri civilizzatori? Che funzione hanno avuto le mssioni nelle terre del west? Questi ed altri interrogativi sono trattati in questo interssante testo.


