American Settler Colonialism: A History

✍ Scribed by Walter L. Hixson (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 261
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Over the course of three centuries, American settlers helped to create the richest, most powerful nation in human history, even as they killed and displaced millions. This groundbreaking work shows that American history is defined by settler colonialism, providing a compelling framework through which to understand its rise to global dominance.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Settler Colonialism, History, and Theory....Pages 1-22
“People from the Unknown World”: The Colonial Encounter and the Acceleration of Violence....Pages 23-44
“No Savage Shall Inherit the Land”: Settler Colonialism through the American Revolution....Pages 45-62
“The Savage and Common Enemy of the Country”: US Settler Colonialism to the Mississippi River....Pages 63-85
“Scenes of Agony and Blood”: Settler Colonialism and the Mexican and Civil Wars....Pages 87-111
“They Promised to Take Our Land and They Took It”: Settler Colonialism in the American West....Pages 113-144
“Spaces of Denial”: American Settler Colonialism in Hawai’i and Alaska....Pages 145-165
“Things Too Scandalous to Write”: The Philippine Intervention and the Continuities of Colonialism....Pages 167-184
“A Very Particular Kind of Inclusion”: Indigenous People in the Postcolonial United States....Pages 185-195
Conclusion: The Boomerang of Savagery....Pages 197-200
Back Matter....Pages 201-253

✦ Subjects

Social History; History of the Americas; US History; Modern History; Imperialism and Colonialism; Historiography and Method