{"product_id":"indigenous-continent-9781324094067","title":"Indigenous Continent","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"When [John] Donne exclaimed ‘O my America! My new-found-land’ to his latest girlfriend, he was oblivious to the long history of that territory so painstakingly mapped by Pekka Hämäläinen in \u003cem\u003eIndigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America\u003c\/em\u003e.\" -- Paul Muldoon - The Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\"[M]agisterial . . . the pace and the scope of the book have a force of their own: Hämäläinen makes it clear that America’s past is crazily, energetically, tumultuously crowded with incident; that Indigenous power has affected everything about America . . . I can only wish that, when I was that lonely college junior and was finishing \u003cem\u003eBury My Heart at Wounded Knee\u003c\/em\u003e, I’d had Hämäläinen’s book at hand. It would have helped me see that there was indeed a larger story: that my civilization hadn’t been destroyed; that my tribe’s contribution to the past wasn’t merely to fade away in the face of history; that Native peoples—for better or for worse—made this country what it was, and have a role to play in what it now struggles to be.\" -- David Treuer - The New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\"T]he single best book I have ever read on Native American history, as well as one of the most innovative narratives about the continent.\" -- Thomas E. Ricks - The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] towering achievement. By gathering the experiences of multiple Native peoples—across an astounding expanse of time and space—\u003cem\u003eIndigenous Continent\u003c\/em\u003e explodes the view that American history unfolded inexorably according to European and American des\" -- Andrew Graybill - The American Scholar\u003cbr\u003e\"The author, an Oxford historian, recasts the history of North America from a Native American perspective, making clear that Native tribes controlled the continent for millenniums (‘On an Indigenous time scale, the United States is a mere speck’). One of t\" -- The New York Times Book Review","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407431344471,"sku":"9781324094067","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781324094067.jpg?v=1730499368","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/indigenous-continent-9781324094067","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}