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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

Blackhawk, Ned

Paperback

Series: The Henry Roe Cloud American Indians and Modernity

Native American HistoryGeneral United States History

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 0300276672
ISBN13: 9780300276671
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Oct 15 2024
Pages: 616
Weight: 1.85
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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, Books to Read in 2023

A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America

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

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