A Post-Exceptionalist Perspective on Early American History American Wests, Global Wests, and Indian Wars /

• Main Author: Kakel III, Carroll P. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: United States-History.; Imperialism.; World history.; Historiography.; US History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Historiography and Method.

Challenging the still widely held notion that American history is somehow exceptional or unique, this book argues that early America is best understood as a settler-colonial supplanting society. As Kakel shows, this society undertook the violent theft of Indigenous land and resources on a massive sc...