{"product_id":"the-rediscovery-of-america-9780300244052","title":"The Rediscovery of America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Eloquent and comprehensive. . . . By presenting post-1492 history as a series of encounters between the various peoples of the Americas and the peoples from Europe, Africa, and Asia—rather than as an account of Europe’s discovery of a new world—Blackhawk provides a view of that past from multiple perspectives. . . . In the book’s sweeping synthesis, standard flashpoints of U.S. history take on new meaning.”—Kathleen DuVal, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Even as the telling of American history has become more complex and nuanced, Native Americans tend to be absent. Blackhawk, a professor at Yale, confronts that absence in this sweeping account of how Native Americans shaped the country legally, politically, and culturally.”—\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, “50 Notable Works of Nonfiction” (2023)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A sweeping, important, revisionist work of American history that places Native Americans front and center.”—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e (cover review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] monumental reappraisal of the United States’ history. . . . Blackhawk . . . foregrounds the endurance of Native Americans’ autonomy and traditions in the face of their near-eradication.”—\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, “The Best Books of 2023”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An ambitious retelling of the American story . . . placing Indigenous populations at the center, a shift in perspective that yields fresh insights and thought-provoking questions.”—Greg Cowles, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, “Editors’ Choice”\u003cbr\u003e“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 . . . challenges those minimalizations and exclusions, showing that Native communities have, instead, been inseparable from the American story all along.”—\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e, “Books to Read in 2023”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This ambitious retelling of the American story, by a historian who is also a Native American, places Indigenous populations at the center, a shift in perspective that yields fresh insights and thought-provoking questions.”—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, “100 Notable Books of 2023”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Blackhawk’s] book will become an indispensable text for a generation of researchers, educators and students.”—Caroline Dodds Pennock, \u003ci\u003eBBC History Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Top 10 Best Book of 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gripping and nuanced, \u003ci\u003eThe Rediscovery of America\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential remedy to the historical record.”—Adrienne Westenfeld, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, “The 20 Best Books of 2023”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Building on years of groundbreaking work by Indigenous and settler scholars, \u003ci\u003eRediscovery\u003c\/i\u003e clearly sets out how Indigenous nations were key actors in shaping the very foundations of the US, from the American Revolution and the national Constitution to the country’s eventual borders.”—Brian Bethune, \u003ci\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2023 National Book Award winner, nonfiction category, sponsored by the National Book Foundation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelected for the 2024 Michigan Notable Books list\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Rediscovery of America\u003c\/i\u003e is a testimony to the transformation of the field of American Indian history over the past several decades, and Blackhawk has abandoned the ‘interpretive tools’ of generations of American historians.”—Brenda J. Child, University of Minnesota\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Ned Blackhawk’s elegant and sweeping account of American history illuminates five centuries of Native American history. He upends familiar narratives to reveal the enduring centrality and vitality of Native peoples in American political life.”—Barbara Krauthamer, Emory University\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Ned Blackhawk not only restores Native Americans to the core of the continent’s story but also offers a running analysis spanning immense times and climes.”—Andrés Reséndez, author of \u003ci\u003eConquering the Pacific\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“On his search to rediscover America, Blackhawk brilliantly rewrites U.S. history, illustrating that it cannot be told absent American Indians. This is the history text we have been waiting for.”—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of \u003ci\u003eAn Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Richly told and deeply informed, \u003ci\u003eThe Rediscovery of America\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the centrality of Indigenous Americans to U.S. history. Blackhawk shows that at every turn the enduring relations between natives and newcomers have shaped the course of the American republic.”—Claudio Saunt, author of the National Book Award finalist \u003ci\u003eUnworthy Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ranging across the continent and across the centuries, Ned Blackhawk skillfully interweaves American history and Native American history, demonstrating conclusively that we cannot properly understand one without the other.”—Colin  G. Calloway, Dartmouth College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Refusing to tell simple stories of subordination or resistance, Ned Blackhawk shows how American politics, law, diplomacy, the economy, and popular culture become incomprehensible without a Native presence.”—Richard White, Stanford University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864344867159,"sku":"9780300244052","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300244052.jpg?v=1722271511","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-rediscovery-of-america-9780300244052","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}