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Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West

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Description for Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West Paperback. Ranging across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California, this title places Native peoples squarely at the center of a story that chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history. Num Pages: 384 pages, 18 halftones, 2 maps, 1 graph. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 155 x 42. Weight in Grams: 434.

American Indians remain familiar as icons, yet poorly understood as historical agents. In this ambitious book that ranges across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California (a region known as the Great Basin), Ned Blackhawk places Native peoples squarely at the center of a dynamic and complex story as he chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history that profoundly shaped the American West.

On the distant margins of empire, Great Basin Indians increasingly found themselves engulfed in the chaotic storms of European expansion and responded in ways that refashioned themselves and those around them. Focusing on Ute, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674027206
SKU
V9780674027206
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About Ned Blackhawk
Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) is Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. The Native American and Indigenous Studies Association awarded Violence over the Land its Book of the Decade Award as “one of the ten most influential books in Native American and Indigenous Studies in the first decade of the twenty-first century.”

Reviews for Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West
Blackhawk’s achievement…is not just rephrasing what is already known, but actually filling a void in historical knowledge by restoring previously overlooked peoples to the record… Blackhawk claims that American history has ‘failed to reckon with the violence upon which the continent was built’… No other Western historian has exposed that violence as starkly as he has.
David Wishart
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Goodreads reviews for Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West


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