A post-exceptionalist perspective on early American history : American Wests, global Wests, and Indian Wars /

A post-exceptionalist perspective on early American history : American Wests, global Wests, and Indian Wars / Carroll P. Kakel, III.

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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...

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Main Author: Kakel, Carroll P., 1947- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Series:Palgrave pivot.
Subjects:
White people > Relations with Indians.
Exceptionalism > United States.
Imperialism.
Exceptionalism.
Whites > Relations with Indians.
United States > History.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : explaining Early America
  • Neo-European Wests : frontiers of empire, 1607-1754
  • America's first West : the Trans-Appalachian West, 1754-1815
  • America's farther West : the Trans-Mississippi West, 1815-1890
  • The global West : other Wests and Indian Wars, 1890-1919
  • The global West : other Wests and Indian Wars, 1919-1945
  • Conclusion : understanding Early America.

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