An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873: The Lamar Series in Western History
Autor Benjamin Madleyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 iun 2016
Winner
of
the
2016Los
Angeles
TimesBook
Award
for
History
New York Times Book ReviewEditors’ Choice
“Gruesomely thorough. . . . Others have described some of these campaigns, but never in such strong terms and with so much blame placed directly on the United States government.”—Alexander Nazaryan,Newsweek
Between 1846 and 1873, California’s Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide.
Madley describes pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $1,700,000 on campaigns against California Indians. Besides evaluating government officials’ culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other possible genocides within and beyond the Americas might be investigated using the methods presented in this groundbreaking book.
New York Times Book ReviewEditors’ Choice
“Gruesomely thorough. . . . Others have described some of these campaigns, but never in such strong terms and with so much blame placed directly on the United States government.”—Alexander Nazaryan,Newsweek
Between 1846 and 1873, California’s Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide.
Madley describes pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $1,700,000 on campaigns against California Indians. Besides evaluating government officials’ culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other possible genocides within and beyond the Americas might be investigated using the methods presented in this groundbreaking book.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780300181364
ISBN-10: 0300181361
Pagini: 712
Ilustrații: 72 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 44 mm
Greutate: 1.16 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Seria The Lamar Series in Western History
ISBN-10: 0300181361
Pagini: 712
Ilustrații: 72 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 44 mm
Greutate: 1.16 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Seria The Lamar Series in Western History
Recenzii
"As
Benjamin
Madley
writes
inAn
American
Genocide,
by
1873,
roaming
bands
of
Indian-killers
played
a
major
role
in
reducing
native
numbers
by
more
than
80
percent.
.
.
.
The
mass
murders
raise
the
question:
Did
they
constitute
genocide
by
official
design?
[Madley]
thinks
so.
He
thoroughly
documents
the
extent
of
the
killings
and
their
horrific
consequences.
.
.
.
Emphasizing
'intention
and
repetition'
in
the
California
massacres,
Madley
[underscores]
the
designing
role
of
state
and
federal
officials."—Alan
Taylor,New
York
Times
Book
Review, Editors’
Choice
"Gruesomely
thorough.
.
.
.
Others
have
described
some
of
these
campaigns,
but
never
in
such
strong
terms
and
with
so
much
blame
placed
directly
on
the
United
States
government."—Alexander
Nazaryan,Newsweek
"By
removing
any
doubt
that
genocide
against
Native
people
took
place
in
the
most
populous
and
prosperous
state
in
the
US,
Madley
is
aiming
for
a
profound
revisioning
of
US
history
as
a
whole.
.
.
.
No
longer
will
genocide
be
something
that
happened
in
some
distant
locale—Namibia,
Germany,
Cambodia
or
Rwanda.
Instead,
it
took
place
in
the
same
sunny
clime
that
American
culture
has
long
celebrated
with
images
of
fun
and
frolic:
Disney,
Hollywood,
the
Beach
Boys
and
surfers
in
search
of
the
endless
summer."—Karl
Jacoby,Journal
of
Genocide
Research
"An
American
Genocide has
settled
the
issue
on
whether
or
not
genocide
occurred
in
California."—William
Bauer
Jr.,Journal
of
Genocide
Research
"Madley
has
written
an
intensely
disturbing
and
invaluable
account
of
the
genocide
that
white
Americans
carried
out
against
California’s
Indian
peoples.
.
.
.
Madley’s
book
should
move
historians
of
the
American
West
to
consider
genocide
studies
as
a
serious
framework
for
analysing
settler–Indian
relations,
and
it
should
also
compel
genocide
studies
scholars
to
reconsider
their
understandings
of
genocide."—Margaret
D.
Jacobs,Journal
of
Genocide
Research
"[A]
stellar
example
of
an
unflinching
commitment
to
document
and
analyse
.
.
.
invasion’s
often
horrific
consequences."—Jeffrey
Ostler,Journal
of
Genocide
Research
"Madley
has
documented
his
charge
of
genocide
[with]
prosecutorial
ferocity .
.
.
[His]
appendices
are
the
most
complete
incident-by-incident
tally
ever
compiled
of
Indian
lives
lost
during
this
terrible
period.
This
scrupulously
detailed
epilogue
is
the
equivalent
of
a
memorial
wall
that
we
are
visiting
for
the
first
time."—Peter
Nabokov,New
York
Review
of
Books
"Madley
moves
with
a
scholar’s
care
across
a
terrible
landscape .
.
.
Essential
reading."—Kirkus
Reviews
"This
is
the
definitive
account
of
California’s
genocide
on
which
all
future
studies
will
be
based."—Tony
Platt,News
from
Native
California
"Commanding.
.
.
.
No
reader
of
his
book
can
seriously
contend
that
what
happened
in
California
doesn't
meet
the
current
definition
of
'genocide.'"—Richard
White,
Stanford
University,Nation
"An
American
Genocideraises
fundamental
questions
about
how
Californians
and
Americans
think
of
themselves
and
tell
their
history.
.
.
.An
American
Genocideprovides
a
powerful
tool
for
historians
and
Native
peoples—including
those
who
are
the
descendants
of
genocide
survivors—to
challenge
the
founding
myths
of
California
and
United
States
history."—Nicolas
R.
Rosenthal,Southern
California
Quarterly
"[M]onumental
.
.
."—Michael
Magliari,H-Net
Reviews
"Vividly
written,
this
exhaustively
researched,
abundantly
illustrated
and
mapped,
362-page
narrative
in
nine
chapters,
which
includes
200
additional
pages
in
eight
appendixes
and
an
extensive
bibliography
and
index,
will
become
the
standard
study
of
the
near-extermination
of
California's
Indians,
1864–73."—Choice
"Comprehensively
researched
and
well-written.
.
.
.An
American
Genocidecourageously
challenges
the
status
quo—with
primary
sources—about
how
the
state
and
federal
government
were
involved
in
the
decimation
of
the
California
Indian
tribes."—True
West
“Remarkable.
.
.
.
A
book
that
should
take
a
lasting
place
in
the
way
we
understand
the
U.S.
and
its
relations
to
American
Indian
people.”—David
A.
Chang,American
Historical
Review
“Madley
has
produced
a
towering
book
that
will
long
endure
as
a
landmark
text
in
California
history.
Among
its
many
achievements,
this
painstakingly
researched
and
thoroughly
documented
work
provides
by
far
the
most
complete
and
detailed
account
ever
written
about
the
murderous
campaigns
waged
against
Native
peoples
by
the
U.S.
Army,
the
California
state
militia,
local
volunteer
militia
units,
and
irregular
bands
of
self-appointed
'Indian
fighters.'"—Michael
F.
Magliari,Ethnohistory
"Perhaps
the
most
comprehensive
case
study
of
California's
Indian
genocide
yet
authored
.
.
.
Madley's
detailed
and
exhaustive
research
makes
his
tome
a
bookend
to
decades
of
research
seeking
to
prove
that
Native
people
experienced
and
survived
genocide
during
the
United
States'
colonial
settlement
of
California."—Michel
Karp,American
Ninteenth
Century
History
"There
is
no
questioning
the
importance
of
this
book.
.
.
.An
American
Genocideis
an
act
of
restorative
justice.
.
.
.
Madley
assures
that
some
of
the
dead
will
not
be
forgotten,
that
history
records
many
of
their
tragic
deaths,
and
that
fewer
of
the
perpetrators
avoid
history’s
judgement."—Steven
W.
Hackel,Journal
of
American
History
"An
American
Genocide
is
an
important
text.
Readers
interested
in
Californian
history,
the
gold
rush,
or
Native
American
history
will
find
this
text
horrifying
but
useful
.
.
. Readers
will
be
stunned
and
saddened
when
they
read
the
191
pages
of
tables
that
document
killings,
massacres,
state
militia
campaigns,
and
U.S.
Army
operations
against
California
Native
Americans.
This
inventory
of
violence
should
be
enough
to
convince
skeptics
that
genocide
did,
indeed,
occur
in
California."—Curtis
Foxley,Journal
of
Native
American
and
Indigenous
Studies
“An
American
Genocideis
an
important
addition
to
American
history
and
genocide
studies.”—Clifford
Trafzer,Holocaust
and
Genocide
Studies
“Madley
.
.
.
[offers]
an
amazing
array
of
documentation
to
make
his
case.
.
.
.
An
American
Genocide
is
an
important
addition
to
American
history
and
genocide
studies.”—Clifford
E.
Trafzer,Holocaust
and
Genocide
Studies
“Intense
and
well-researched,
.
.
.
ambitious,
.
.
.
magisterial.
.
.
.
Ostler’s
swift-paced
yet
meticulous
coverage
of
the
wars
and
diasporas,
great
and
small,
and
attendant
fluctuations
in
native
populations
has
been
assembled
as
if
he
intends
it
to
be
his
academic
generation’s
manifesto.
.
.
.
For
many
of
us,
I
suspect,
who
have
researched
and
taught
Indian–white
relations
most
of
our
lives,Surviving
Genocidesets
a
bar
from
which
subsequent
scholarship
and
teaching
cannot
retreat.”—Peter
Nabokov,New
York
Review
of
Books
Winner,Los
Angeles
TimesBook
Awardfor
History
Winner,
Gold
Medal,
California
Book
Awardfor
Californiana
Winner,
Heyday
History
Awardfrom
Heyday
Books
Publishing
True
WestBest
New
Western
Author
Indian
Country
TodayHot
List
Book
"An
American
Genocideprovides
one
of
the
most
detailed
and
stunning
narratives
of
violence,
murder,
and
state-sponsored
genocide
in
North
America,
making
this
book
a
major
achievement
in
the
fields
of
both
Native
American
history
and
Genocide
Studies."—Ned
Blackhawk
(Yale
University),
author
ofViolence
Over
the
Land:
Indians
and
Empires
in
the
Early
American
West
"Madley
has
far
exceeded
previous
scholarship
in
making
a
persuasive
case
for
concluding
that
what
happened
to
California
Indians
from
1846
to
1873
qualifies
as
genocide."—Jeffrey
Ostler
(University
of
Oregon),
author
ofThe
Plains
Sioux
and
U.S.
Colonialism
from
Lewis
and
Clark
to
Wounded
Knee
"This
book
is
a
powerful
contribution
to
the
study
of
Native
Americans,
to
California
history,
and
to
genocide
studies
as
a
whole.
It
should
be
read
by
every
Californian."—Norman
Naimark
(Stanford
University),
author
ofStalin’s
Genocides
"Benjamin
Madley
has
changed
the
conversation
on
genocide
and
American
Indians.
AfterAn
American
Genocide,it
will
no
longer
be
possible
to
debate
whether
or
not
genocide
took
place.
Instead
we
will
need
to
confront
the
questions
of
how
and
why
genocide
against
American
Indians
took
place
and
what
the
United
States
owes
its
indigenous
communities."—Karl
Jacoby
(Columbia
University),
author
of Shadows
at
Dawn:
A
Borderlands
Massacre
and
the
Violence
of
History
"Benjamin
Madley’s
book
is
brilliant,
unsettling,
and
necessary.
It
will
change
forever
how
we
understand
the
history
of
California,
and
it
will
make
historians
of
other
places
and
periods
wonder
what
they
have
missed.An
American
Genocidewill
have
a
long
legacy."—Pekka
Hämäläinen
(Oxford
University),
author
ofThe
Comanche
Empire
Notă biografică
Benjamin
Madleyis
associate
professor
of
history,
University
of
California,
Los
Angeles,
where
he
focuses
on
Native
America,
the
United
States,
and
genocide
in
world
history.
He
lives
in
Los
Angeles,
CA.