American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492 Thornton Russell
American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492 Thornton Russell This demographic overview of North American Indian history describes in detail the holocaust that, even today,…
Specifikacia American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492 Thornton Russell
American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492 Thornton Russell
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. 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 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.