The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
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Book Overview A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of mo...
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America
National Bestseller
Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction - Finalist for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Award in History - Winner of 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction - Winner of the 2024 Mark Lynton History Prize
Named a best book of 2023 by New Yorker, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, Barnes & Noble
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 - A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2023 - An NPR "Book We Love" for 2023
"Eloquent and comprehensive. . . . In the book's sweeping synthesis, standard flashpoints of U.S. history take on new meaning."--Kathleen DuVal, Wall Street Journal
"In accounts of American history, Indigenous peoples are often treated as largely incidental--either obstacles to be overcome or part of a narrative separate from the arc of nation-building. Blackhawk . . . [shows] that Native communities have, instead, been inseparable from the American story all along."--Washington Post Book World
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, as 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.
Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non-Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. In this transformative synthesis he shows that
- European colonization in the 1600s was never a predetermined success
- Native nations helped shape England's crisis of empire
- the first shots of the American Revolution were prompted by Indian affairs in the interior
- California Indians targeted by federally funded militias were among the first casualties of the Civil War
- the Union victory forever recalibrated Native communities across the West
- twentieth-century reservation activists refashioned American law and policy
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.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 616 | Language: English | Publisher: YALE UNIV PR | ISBN: 0300276672
FormatPaperback
Pages616
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0300276672
EAN9780300276671
PublisherYALE UNIV PR
Publication Date1970-01-01
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight1.85 Pounds
Length9.2 Inches
Width6.1 Inches
Height1.4 Inches
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