{"product_id":"an-american-genocide-the-united-states-and-the-california-indian-catastrophe-18461873-the-lamar-series-in-western-history-lamar-series-in-western-history-yale-9780300230697","title":"An American Genocide The United States and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As Benjamin Madley writes in \u003ci\u003eAn American Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e, by 1873, roaming bands of Indian-killers played a major role in reducing native numbers by more than 80 percent. . . . The mass murders raise the question: Did they constitute genocide by official design? [Madley] thinks so. He thoroughly documents the extent of the killings and their horrific consequences. . . . Emphasizing 'intention and repetition' in the California massacres, Madley [underscores] the designing role of state and federal officials.\"—Alan Taylor, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Editors’ Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gruesomely thorough. . . . Others have described some of these campaigns, but never in such strong terms and with so much blame placed directly on the United States government.\"—Alexander Nazaryan, \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By removing any doubt that genocide against Native people took place in the most populous and prosperous state in the US, Madley is aiming for a profound revisioning of US history as a whole. . . . No longer will genocide be something that happened in some distant locale—Namibia, Germany, Cambodia or Rwanda. Instead, it took place in the same sunny clime that American culture has long celebrated with images of fun and frolic: Disney, Hollywood, the Beach Boys and surfers in search of the endless summer.\"—Karl Jacoby, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Genocide Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAn American Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e has settled the issue on whether or not genocide occurred in California.\"—William Bauer Jr., \u003ci\u003eJournal of Genocide Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Madley has written an intensely disturbing and invaluable account of the genocide that white Americans carried out against California’s Indian peoples. . . . Madley’s book should move historians of the American West to consider genocide studies as a serious framework for analysing settler–Indian relations, and it should also compel genocide studies scholars to reconsider their understandings of genocide.\"—Margaret D. Jacobs, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Genocide Research \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] stellar example of an unflinching commitment to document and analyse . . . invasion’s often horrific consequences.\"—Jeffrey Ostler, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Genocide Research \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e for History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, Gold Medal, California Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e for Californiana\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, Heyday History Award\u003c\/b\u003e from Heyday Books Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrue West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Best New Western Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndian Country Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Hot List Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAn American Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e provides one of the most detailed and stunning narratives of violence, murder, and state-sponsored genocide in North America, making this book a major achievement in the fields of both Native American history and Genocide Studies.\"—Ned Blackhawk (Yale University), author of \u003ci\u003eViolence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Madley has far exceeded previous scholarship in making a persuasive case for concluding that what happened to California Indians from 1846 to 1873 qualifies as genocide.\"—Jeffrey Ostler (University of Oregon), author of \u003ci\u003eThe Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a powerful contribution to the study of Native Americans, to California history, and to genocide studies as a whole. It should be read by every Californian.\"—Norman Naimark (Stanford University), author of \u003ci\u003eStalin’s Genocides\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Benjamin Madley has changed the conversation on genocide and American Indians. After \u003ci\u003eAn American Genocide,\u003c\/i\u003e it will no longer be possible to debate whether or not genocide took place. Instead we will need to confront the questions of how and why genocide against American Indians took place and what the United States owes its indigenous communities.\"—Karl Jacoby (Columbia University), author of \u003ci\u003eShadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Benjamin Madley’s book is brilliant, unsettling, and necessary. It will change forever how we understand the history of California, and it will make historians of other places and periods wonder what they have missed. \u003ci\u003eAn American Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e will have a long legacy.\"—Pekka Hämäläinen (Oxford University), author of \u003ci\u003eThe Comanche Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401546342743,"sku":"9780300230697","price":21.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300230697.jpg?v=1730477760","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/an-american-genocide-the-united-states-and-the-california-indian-catastrophe-18461873-the-lamar-series-in-western-history-lamar-series-in-western-history-yale-9780300230697","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}