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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blackhawk, Ned, author.

Series:

Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity.

The Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--America--History.

Indigenous peoples.

Indians of North America--United States--History.

Indians of North America.

United States--History.

United States.

Genre:

Informational works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 596 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Other Title:

Native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history

Native peoples and the unmaking of United States history

Place of Publication:

2023.

New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"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, 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. 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." -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction: Toward a new American history

Part I: Indians and empires. 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

Part II. Struggles for sovereignty. 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.

Notes:

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

National Book Award in Nonfiction, 2023.

ISBN:

9780300271249

0300271247

9780300244052

0300244053

OCLC:

1371753017