For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that ti...

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1. Verfasser:	Stannard, David E.
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 1992.
Schlagworte:	Columbus, Christopher > Influence. Columbus, Christopher Indians, Treatment of. Indians > First contact with other peoples. Peuples autochtones > Premiers contacts avec d'autres peuples. HISTORY > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) HISTORY > North America. Discoveries in geography > Spanish Indians > First contact with other peoples Indians, Treatment of Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) America > Discovery and exploration > Spanish. Amérique > Découverte et exploration espagnoles. America
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Zusammenfassung:	For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people. Indeed, as historian David E. Stannard argues in this stunning new book, the European and white American destruction of the native peoples of the Americas was the most massive act of genocide in the history of t.
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (732 pages)
ISBN:	9780199838905 0199838909 9780199838981 0199838984