American Settler Colonialism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Settler Colonialism, History, and Theory

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   Pages 1-22

3. “People from the Unknown World”: The Colonial Encounter and the Acceleration of Violence

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   Pages 23-44

4. “No Savage Shall Inherit the Land”: Settler Colonialism through the American Revolution

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   Pages 45-62

5. “The Savage and Common Enemy of the Country”: US Settler Colonialism to the Mississippi River

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   Pages 63-85

6. “Scenes of Agony and Blood”: Settler Colonialism and the Mexican and Civil Wars

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   Pages 87-111

7. “They Promised to Take Our Land and They Took It”: Settler Colonialism in the American West

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   Pages 113-144

8. “Spaces of Denial”: American Settler Colonialism in Hawai’i and Alaska

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   Pages 145-165

9. “Things Too Scandalous to Write”: The Philippine Intervention and the Continuities of Colonialism

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   Pages 167-184

10. “A Very Particular Kind of Inclusion”: Indigenous People in the Postcolonial United States

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    Pages 185-195

11. Conclusion: The Boomerang of Savagery

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    Pages 197-200

12. Back Matter

    Pages 201-253

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Over the course of three centuries, American settlers helped to create the richest, most powerful nation in human history, even as they killed and displaced millions. This groundbreaking work shows that American history is defined by settler colonialism, providing a compelling framework through which to understand its rise to global dominance.

• American History
• american revolution
• colonialism
• history
• revolution
• settler
• USA

'The strengths of this book include its commitment to a clearly stated theoretical foundation, its concern about the under reporting of the violence and violation to human beings at the core of this history, and its intention to incorporate a comparative element. It integrates Native American history into American history narratives and does important work in bringing the U.S.-Mexico War and other colonial conflicts into the analysis." - Sherry L. Smith, University Distinguished Professor of History and Associate Director of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, USA

"This book is an important achievement. Hixson applies to American history the findings of settler colonial studies as a global intellectual endeavor." - Lorenzo Veracini, Associate Professor, Swineburne University of Technology, Australia, and Managing Editor, Settler Colonial Studies

"Hixson has synthesized the history of English/American settler colonialism of American Indian peoples through the latest settler colonial theories. There is no other work out there like this, and this kind of synthesis is much needed. In particular, he shows the thread between conflagrations that are often treated distinctly from one another: the US-Mexican War, the Civil War, the Indian Wars, and the Spanish-American War." - Margaret Jacobs, Chancellor's Professor of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Walter L. Hixson is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Akron, USA. His most recent book is The Myth of American Diplomacy: National Identity and U.S. Foreign Policy (2009).

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