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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Kakel III, Carroll P. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Explaining Early America
• 2. Neo-European Wests: Frontiers of Empire, 1607-1754
• 3. America's First West: The Trans-Appalachian West, 1754-1815
• 4. America's Farther West: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1815-1890
• 5. The Global West: Other Wests and Indian Wars, 1890-1919
• 6. The Global West: Other Wests and Indian Wars, 1919-1945
• 7. Conclusion: Understanding Early America.