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1 online resource (1 audio file (18hr., 44 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Kaipo Schwab. |
| Summary |
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus "discovers" a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches. The European empires rush over, eager to stake out as much of this astonishing "New World" as possible. Though Indigenous peoples fight back, they cannot stop the onslaught. White imperialists are destined to rule the continent, and history is an irreversible march toward Indigenous destruction. In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history. Shifting our perspective away from Jamestown, Plymouth Rock, the Revolution, and other well-trodden episodes on the conventional timeline, he depicts a sovereign world of Native nations whose members, far from helpless victims of colonial violence, dominated the continent for centuries after the first European arrivals. Hämäläinen ultimately contends that the very notion of "colonial America" is misleading, and that we should speak instead of an "Indigenous America" that was only slowly and unevenly becoming colonial. Necessary listening for anyone who cares about America's past, present, and future, Indigenous Continent restores Native peoples to their rightful place at the very fulcrum of American history. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- History.
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Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869.
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| Added Author |
Schwab, Kaipo, 1971- narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781696609029 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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169660902X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT15382640 |
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