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Sto caricando le informazioni... Savages and Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America's Road to Empire through Indian Territorydi Paul VanDevelder
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 Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.   ) foof2you | Sep 8, 2021 |  Here is a profound dismantling of the whole mythical edifice surrounding the westward expansion that shaped the republic. VanDevelder identifies our historical amnesia about federal Indian policy as a profound moral crisis that needs to be confronted, and after reading his book, it’s hard to argue with him. He’s spent a lifetime exposing some of the ruthless conduct that continued well into the 20th century, and his previous book, Coyote Warrior, really had an impact. Some have called Savages & Scoundrels a Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee for the 21st century, and it’s an apt comparison. With the 1851 Treaty at Horse Creek as Exhibit A, VanDevelder unpacks the consequences of this broken treaty. It’s a shocking and passionate book, but one anchored in impeccable scholarship. [John Eklund] (  ) pablomango | Jun 3, 2009 | I read this book simultaneously as the new PBS docu-series "We Shall Remain" was aired. The topic is a great one and often what is written in textbooks hardly tells the full story of America's first peoples. As a topic, I think "Savages & Scoundrels" is a great one, under-studied and traditionally distorted. However, I felt that VanDevelder's writing lacked a sense of focus. Mostly drifting from moment to moment, topic to topic, without much of a central theme or argument. Academically, I think the book is well-researched, but structurally the book is not well put together. In addition, there is a lot of filler in the book which is completely unnecessary. The book could have been half as long, and twice as precise if VanDevelder had selected fewer cases to study and expanded his analysis to provide a much tighter text. The book definitely could have benefited from a more extensive edit. There are not many good books that explore this side of social and political history. "Savages & Scoundrels" seeks to be one of them, a textual version of "We Shall Remain" -- but unfortunately the writing falls short of telling this important history. (  ) bruchu | May 29, 2009 | nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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What really happened in the early days of our nation? How was it possible for white settlers to march across the entire continent, inexorably claiming Native American lands for themselves? Who made it happen, and why? This gripping book tells America's story from a new perspective, chronicling the adventures of our forefathers and showing how a legacy of repeated betrayals became the bedrock on which the republic was built. Paul VanDevelder takes as his focal point the epic federal treaty ratified in 1851 at Horse Creek, formally recognizing perpetual ownership by a dozen Native American tribes of 1.1 million square miles of the American West. The astonishing and shameful story of this broken treaty-one of 371 Indian treaties signed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-reveals a pattern of fraudulent government behavior that again and again displaced Native Americans from their lands. VanDevelder describes the path that led to the genocide of the American Indian; those who participated in it, from cowboys and common folk to aristocrats and presidents; and how the history of the immoral treatment of Indians through the twentieth century has profound social, economic, and political implications for America even today. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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