Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism and the Cant of Conquest (Institute of Early American History) - Hardcover

Jennings, Francis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807812455 ISBN 13: 9780807812457

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 1975

Synopsis

The cultural devastation of Atlantic coastal Indian tribes by European civilization, particularly New England Puritans, and the creation of an ideology to justify the cruelty are studied

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Review:

An illuminating account that should stand as the corrective to American historiography that [Jennings] intended.--Reviews in American History

The historiography of Indian-European relations will never be the same.--The American Historical Review

Jennings' achievement in this volume is considerable. . . . Studies of cultural contact in New England and elsewhere can now proceed in an atmosphere freed from the 'cant of conquest.'--The New England Quarterly

About the Author:

Francis Jennings (1918-2000) was director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the American Indian at Chicago's Newberry Library. His many other books include Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies, and Tribes in the Seven Years War in America and The Creation of America: Through Revolution to Empire.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0807812455
• ISBN 13: 9780807812457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 380