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The rediscovery of America : native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history / Ned Blackhawk.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernityPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: viii, 596 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300244052
  • 0300244053
Other title:
  • Native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history
  • Native peoples and the unmaking of United States history
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Contents:
Introduction: Toward a new American history -- American genesis : Indians and the Spanish borderlands -- The native Northeast and the rise of British North America -- The unpredictability of violence : Iroquoia and New France to 1701 -- The native inland sea : the struggle for the heart of the continent, 1701-55 -- Settler uprising : the indigenous origins of the American Revolution -- Colonialism's constitution : the origins of federal Indian policy -- The deluge of settler colonialism : democracy and dispossession in the early republic -- Foreign policy formations : California, the Pacific, and the borderlands origins of the Monroe Doctrine -- Collapse and total war : the indigenous West and the U.S. Civil War -- Taking children and treaty lands : laws and federal power during the reservation era -- Indigenous twilight at the dawn of the century : native activists and the myth of Indian disappearance -- From termination to self-determination : Native American sovereignty in the Cold War era.
Summary: "The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non-Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. In this transformative synthesis he shows that: European colonization in the 1600s was never a predetermined success; Native nations helped shape England's crisis of empire; the first shots of the American Revolution were prompted by Indian affairs in the interior; California Indians targeted by federally funded militias were among the first casualties of the Civil War; the Union victory forever recalibrated Native communities across the West; twentieth-century reservation activists refashioned American law and policy. Blackhawk's retelling of U.S. history acknowledges the enduring power, agency, and survival of Indigenous peoples, yielding a truer account of the United States and revealing anew the varied meanings of America."-- Provided by publisher.
List(s) this item appears in: 2024 FPL Reading Challenge: Award Winning Read
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

National Bestseller



Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Award in History * Winner of 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction



Named a best book of 2023 by New Yorker , Esquire , Barnes & Noble



A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 * A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2023 * An NPR "Book We Love" for 2023



"Eloquent and comprehensive. . . . In the book's sweeping synthesis, standard flashpoints of U.S. history take on new meaning."--Kathleen DuVal, Wall Street Journal



"In accounts of American history, Indigenous peoples are often treated as largely incidental--either obstacles to be overcome or part of a narrative separate from the arc of nation-building. Blackhawk . . . [shows] that Native communities have, instead, been inseparable from the American story all along."-- Washington Post Book World , "Books to Read in 2023"



A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America



The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, as a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.



Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non‑Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. In this transformative synthesis he shows that

* European colonization in the 1600s was never a predetermined success;

* Native nations helped shape England's crisis of empire;

* the first shots of the American Revolution were prompted by Indian affairs in the interior;

* California Indians targeted by federally funded militias were among the first casualties of the Civil War;

* the Union victory forever recalibrated Native communities across the West;

* twentieth-century reservation activists refashioned American law and policy.



Blackhawk's retelling of U.S. history acknowledges the enduring power, agency, and survival of Indigenous peoples, yielding a truer account of the United States and revealing anew the varied meanings of America.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-550) and index.

Introduction: Toward a new American history -- American genesis : Indians and the Spanish borderlands -- The native Northeast and the rise of British North America -- The unpredictability of violence : Iroquoia and New France to 1701 -- The native inland sea : the struggle for the heart of the continent, 1701-55 -- Settler uprising : the indigenous origins of the American Revolution -- Colonialism's constitution : the origins of federal Indian policy -- The deluge of settler colonialism : democracy and dispossession in the early republic -- Foreign policy formations : California, the Pacific, and the borderlands origins of the Monroe Doctrine -- Collapse and total war : the indigenous West and the U.S. Civil War -- Taking children and treaty lands : laws and federal power during the reservation era -- Indigenous twilight at the dawn of the century : native activists and the myth of Indian disappearance -- From termination to self-determination : Native American sovereignty in the Cold War era.

"The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non-Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. In this transformative synthesis he shows that: European colonization in the 1600s was never a predetermined success; Native nations helped shape England's crisis of empire; the first shots of the American Revolution were prompted by Indian affairs in the interior; California Indians targeted by federally funded militias were among the first casualties of the Civil War; the Union victory forever recalibrated Native communities across the West; twentieth-century reservation activists refashioned American law and policy. Blackhawk's retelling of U.S. history acknowledges the enduring power, agency, and survival of Indigenous peoples, yielding a truer account of the United States and revealing anew the varied meanings of America."-- Provided by publisher.

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