Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
Autor Jeffrey Ostleren Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 sep 2020
Apreciem în mod deosebit modul în care Surviving Genocide abordează istoria americană printr-o lentilă interdisciplinară, împletind istoria socială, studiile politice și epidemiologia pentru a explica mecanismele complexe ale expansiunii coloniale. Ne-a atras atenția rigoarea cu care Jeffrey Ostler demontează mitul democrației jacksoniene, subliniind modul în care aceasta s-a sprijinit structural pe deposedarea și eliminarea populațiilor indigene. Structura narativă este una densă, dar fluidă, alternând între analizele macro-politice ale deciziilor federale și micro-istoriile rezilienței umane.
Subliniem faptul că acest volum reprezintă o alternativă academică solidă la An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States de Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz pentru cursurile de istorie nord-americană, având avantajul unei focalizări metodice pe regiunea de la est de Mississippi și pe intervalul 1750-1860. În timp ce alte lucrări oferă o privire de ansamblu, Jeffrey Ostler aduce o profunzime documentară superioară în ceea ce privește utilizarea tratatelor ca instrumente de deposedare „legală”.
În contextul operei autorului, Surviving Genocide extinde preocupările din The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee, mutând atenția de la specificul unei singure națiuni către un cadru sistemic al genocidului. Dacă în The Lakotas and the Black Hills accentul cădea pe lupta pentru pământul natal, aici Jeffrey Ostler construiește un manifest academic care redefinește termenul de genocid în contextul frontierelor americane, documentând nu doar violența directă, ci și consecințele colaterale — boli, expunere și privare — care au urmat deplasărilor forțate.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0300255365
Pagini: 544
Ilustrații: 49 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.69 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte studenților la istorie și științe politice, dar și cititorilor pasionați de demitizarea istoriei oficiale. Veți câștiga o înțelegere nuanțată a modului în care s-a format imperiul continental american, dincolo de retorica progresului. Este un studiu esențial despre supraviețuire și reziliență, oferind dovezi clare despre cum comunitățile indigene și-au menținut identitatea în fața unei politici sistematice de exterminare.
Despre autor
Jeffrey Ostler este profesor de istorie la University of Oregon, specializat în istoria frontierelor și a popoarelor native din America de Nord. Experiența sa vastă în cercetarea arhivelor este reflectată în numeroase articole publicate în jurnale de prestigiu precum Western Historical Quarterly. Opera sa se concentrează pe intersecția dintre politicile coloniale ale S.U.A. și răspunsul comunităților indigene, Surviving Genocide fiind considerată lucrarea sa cea mai ambițioasă de până acum, prima dintr-o serie ce promite să devină o referință în istoriografia contemporană.
Descriere scurtă
“An elegant, organized narrative of the United States’ dispossession of Native lands east of the Mississippi. . . . A remarkable book in its breadth and scope.”—Ashley Riley Sousa, Canadian Journal of History
“Intense and well-researched, . . . ambitious, . . . magisterial. . . . Surviving Genocide sets a bar from which subsequent scholarship and teaching cannot retreat.”—Peter Nabokov, New York Review of Books
In this book, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force to remove or slaughter Indians in the way of U.S. expansion. He charts the losses that Indians suffered from relentless violence and upheaval and the attendant effects of disease, deprivation, and exposure. This volume centers on the eastern United States from the 1750s to the start of the Civil War.
An authoritative contribution to the history of the United States’ violent path toward building a continental empire, this ambitious and well-researched book deepens our understanding of the seizure of Indigenous lands, including the use of treaties to create the appearance of Native consent to dispossession. Ostler also documents the resilience of Native people, showing how they survived genocide by creating alliances, defending their towns, and rebuilding their communities.
Recenzii
“A groundbreaking tour de force that will appeal to anyone interested in American history or Native American studies.”—John R. Burch, Library Journal, starred review
“In Surviving Genocide, historian Jeffrey Ostler . . . has synthesized extensive historical scholarship to produce an elegant, organized narrative of the United States’ dispossession of Native lands east of the Mississippi. Surviving Genocide is a remarkable book in its breadth and scope."—Ashley Riley Sousa, Canadian Journal of History
“[A] comprehensive and impressively thorough book. . . . The book deserves a wide readership, and it is ideal for both undergraduate and graduate courses in U.S. history.”—Julius Wilm, Journal of Southern History
“[A] landmark contribution to both Native American and United States history . . . essential reading for scholars of both.”—Ben Madley, American Historical Review
“An excellent first installment of what will be a two-part history.”—Rebecca Onion, Slate
“A valuable synthesis of American settler colonialism and Indigenous responses to it. Its uncompromising assessment of genocide is a timely and important intervention. . . . Whether the debate unfolds in journals, classrooms, or newspaper columns, Surviving Genocide will provide mandatory reading for all participants in this conversation.”—Jane Dinwoodie, Civil War History
“This work will likely transform the way scholars evaluate the motivations behind the United States’ treatment of its Indigenous populations.”—Tim Alan Garrison, Oregon Historical Quarterly
“Ostler’s exhaustively researched and insightful book left me with new understandings of the past and also with new ways of thinking about the Native literatures of this period.”—Paul Conrad, Early American Literature
“Engagingly written and thoroughly researched . . . a triumph of historical synthesis and incisive scholarly analysis.”—Gregory D. Smithers, H-AmIndian
“A must read for anyone interested in U.S. history. . . . The most powerful part of this book is Ostler’s use of Indigenous speeches and words. Indigenous people knew, and still know, exactly what kind of nation the United States is: one bent on their destruction.”—William J. Bauer, Jr., Indiana Magazine of History
Winner of the Ray Allen Billington Prize, sponsored by the Organization of American Historians
Selected for Choice’s 2019 Outstanding Academic Titles List
“Jeffrey Ostler’s Surviving Genocide covers a full century and a huge swath of territory but is never less than comprehensive. This is benchmark history at its best.”—John Mack Faragher, Yale University
“Stunning in its depth of research and scope of learning, Surviving Genocide brings a new level of sophistication to the study of the United States’ ‘Indian wars,’ revealing the genocidal impulse at the core of the conflicts as well as the Native ingenuity that prevented an even more profound loss of life and land.”—Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History
“Surviving Genocide provides a panoramic survey of American-Indian relations and takes a hard look at U.S. policies that were predicated, one way or another, on the removal of Native people; at the same time, it offers important testimony on the resilience of Native people who refused to disappear.”—Colin G. Calloway, author of The Indian World of George Washington
“A landmark book essential to understanding American history, Surviving Genocide is an act of courage. Ostler’s brilliant concept of reconstructing ‘an Indigenous consciousness of genocide’ is significant for its insight into how American Indians understood, discussed, and resisted genocidal threats to their families, communities, and nations. His modern vocabulary of ‘atrocities’ and ‘killing fields’ is not for political effect but appropriate to the brutal reality of Indian policy in American history.”—Brenda Child, Northrop Professor of American Studies, University of Minnesota