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American Holocaust : The Conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard (1993, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100195085574
ISBN-139780195085570
eBay Product ID (ePID)71229
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Book TitleAmerican Holocaust : the Conquest of the New World
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1993
TopicAdventurers & Explorers, Native American
FeaturesReprint
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorDavid E. Stannard
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight18.4 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
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LCCN2006-278648
Reviewsvivid and relentless ... meticulous analysis ... a devastating reassessment of the Conquest as nothing less than a holy war, "A splendid antidote to those many books on American Indian policy that tend to ignore the realities of the subject."--Journal of American Ethnic History, "We need to be reminded, again and again, of what Stannard speaks of as'the treasure of a single life.' Stannard gives us a fine review of recentliterature and a rousing, effective call to define our terms,'racism,''genocide,' and use them to describe what happened and still happens."--EllenNore, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, "Vivid and relentless, combining a formidable array of primary sourceswith meticulous analysis--a devastating reassessment of the Conquest as nothingless than a holy war."--Kirkus Reviews, "A fascinating book, enormously impressive in its research and engaging inits style....Puts the Columbus story in philosophical and historicalperspective. Further, it makes connections with our own time which areunsettling and profoundly important."--Howard Zinn, author of A People's Historyof the United States, "American Holocaust isa substantial addition to the library of injustice toward American Natives....From an ethical standpoint, works such as Stannard's are necessary to counterbalance the ethnocentricities of past historical works on Natives. From an academic standpoint, the book is aninterdisciplinary monument. The author has taken an incredible amount of data and applied contemporary anthropological, demographic, and historical techniques to synthesize a comprehensive piece of scholarship. American Holocaust will provide a desireble textbook for students at both the graduateand undergraduate levels. Finally, scholars of Indian-white relations from various disciplines will find the book a valuable resource in terms of method and content."--Samuel R. Cook, American Indian Quarterly.", "A landmark of necessary remembering, American Holocaust acutely dissectsthe demons driving the European invaders and presents the most compelling answeryet to the horrifying question of what it was like to be 'discovered.'"--RichardDrinnon, author of Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating andEmpire-Building, "A shattering realization is brought home: the German holocaust was notunique in history. There is a holocaust in our American past. We owe it to itsvictims, and to our own future, to reflect on Stannard's merciless book."--HansKoning, author of Columbus: His Enterprise, "A shattering realization is brought home: the German holocaust was not unique in history. There is a holocaust in our American past. We owe it to its victims, and to our own future, to reflect on Stannard's merciless book."--Hans Koning, author of Columbus: His Enterprise, "We need to be reminded, again and again, of what Stannard speaks of as 'the treasure of a single life.' Stannard gives us a fine review of recent literature and a rousing, effective call to define our terms,'racism,' 'genocide,' and use them to describe what happened and stillhappens."--Ellen Nore, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, "Superb scholarship and compellingly accessible presentation."--Professor Benjamin R. Tong, Ph.D., California Institute of Integral Studies, "The book to read to understand the last five hundred years. Stannard hascourageously documented the initial and continuing genocide of natives of thewestern hemisphere in an irrefutable and convincing manner."--Vine Deloria, Jr.,author of God is Red and Custer Died for Your Sins, "An important work that will have [Stannard] canonized by some and pillored by others by the end of the Quincentennial Year. It is the product of massive reading in the important sources, years of pondering, and fury at what Europe hath wrought in America....His convincing claim is that whathappened was the worst demographic disaster in the history of our species, that Old World diseases and Old World brutality reduced the number of Indians enormously and drove away many Native American peoples over the brink of extinction. How convincing are his evidence and reasoning? Very, I amunhappy to say....Nothing can be done to improve the past, but we can at least face it. David Stannard insists that we do."--Alfred Crosby, The Boston Sunday Globe, "Vivid and relentless, combining a formidable array of primary sources with meticulous analysis--a devastating reassessment of the Conquest as nothing less than a holy war."--Kirkus Reviews, "In a thoroughly documented narrative, David Stannard demolishes a scoreof historical myths, and turns American Holocaust into a searing account of whathappened in the Americas after the arrival of Columbus. It is a stirring andtroubling book "--Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, "A fascinating book, enormously impressive in its research and engaging in its style....Puts the Columbus story in philosophical and historical perspective. Further, it makes connections with our own time which are unsettling and profoundly important."--Howard Zinn, author of A People'sHistory of the United States, "Offers a much-needed counterbalance to centuries of romantic confabulation about the explorer."--The Los Angeles Times, "An important work that will have [Stannard] canonized by some andpillored by others by the end of the Quincentennial Year. It is the product ofmassive reading in the important sources, years of pondering, and fury at whatEurope hath wrought in America....His convincing claim is that what happened wasthe worst demographic disaster in the history of our species, that Old Worlddiseases and Old World brutality reduced the number of Indians enormously anddrove away many Native American peoples over the brink of extinction. Howconvincing are his evidence and reasoning? Very, I am unhappy to say....Nothingcan be done to improve the past, but we can at least face it. David Stannardinsists that we do."--Alfred Crosby, The Boston Sunday Globe, "Offers a much-needed counterbalance to centuries of romanticconfabulation about the explorer."--The Los Angeles Times
Edition DescriptionReprint
Table Of ContentProloguePart I: Before ColumbusPart II: Pestilence and GenocidePart III: Sex, Race, and Holy WarAppendixesAppendix I: On Pre-Columbian Settlement and PopulationAppendix II: On Racism and GenocideAcknowledgmentsNotes Index
SynopsisFor 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. It is an ideology that remains dangerously alive today, he adds, and one that in recent years has surfaced in American justifications for large-scale military intervention in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. At once sweeping in scope and meticulously detailed, American Holocaust is a work of impassioned scholarship that is certain to ignite intense historical and moral debate., In a work of impassioned scholarship, David E. Stannard describes in horrific detail the mass destruction of entire New World societies that followed in the wake of European contact with the Western Hemisphere--destruction that lasted for more that four centuries, and that continues in many places even today. In a sweeping introductory overview of the native cultures of the Americas as they existed prior to 1492, Stannard provides a vibrant context forunderstanding the human dimension of what was lost in that tragic firestorm of violence and introduced disease. He concludes with a searching examination of the religious and cultural roots of Euro-American racismand genocidal behavior. Meticulously detailed and broad in scope, this stunning work is certain to ignite intense historical and moral debate among historians and students alike., David Stannard's book focuses on the larger social and cultural issues involved in the invasion of America by European nations. The first two chapters of the book describe the Americas prior to this invasion and detail the variety of rich cultures that existed then. Another chapter deals with the Spanish and Portuguese invasion of Central and South America and describes the devastation left inthe wake of these invasions. A fourth chapter describes the effects of English invaders in North America and of the further suppression of native peoples in American colonial times. In the final section, titles "Sex, Race, and Holy War," two chapters examine the kind of people who waged these "holy" wars and focus on the cultural sources and the ideological content of their invasion efforts. There is also an Epilogue, and an Appendix titled "On Racism and Genocide." This is a highly controversial book that is certain to have a major place in the Columbus Anniversary discussions next year. It is an angry, provocative book. In contrast to other recent books on the subject, however. Stannard's book is by a recognized scholar (who has already written a well-received monograph Before the Horror on the South Pacific aspects of the subject) and has based his study on wide historical research.
LC Classification NumberE112.S82 1993
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