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Indigenous Continent
- The Epic Contest for North America
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
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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.
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- 18-06-24
It was recommended by Prof. Stephen kotkin.
I was recommended this title by the Hoover Institutes Stephen Kotkin in one of those you tube lectures or pod casts: Need I say more.
Came across as balanced while still supporting in the main, the current anti imperialist bias that predominates today.
If you are mildly curious about the conquest of America before 1850, after which, Hollywood over abundantly told us about for more than a century, then this book will inform and enlighten you without boring you.
I have to say, rather reluctantly and sadly, that the colonists post 1776, come out looking the worst, but they were ably assisted by the native peoples who used them and their technology to gain advantage over long hated native rivals and neighbours.
To be honest very few come out of this account smelling of roses, and those that do, on both sides had their sincere efforts at peace making undermined AS EVER, by the fanatic few and the ignorant, reactionary many: Well that's what I took out of this listen.
Arguments would not last long if all the fault was on one side and those who seek to apportion guilt for the past for self gain, threaten to perpetuate it.
Mick the Hick😊
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