Unworthy republic

the dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian territory

Sachbuch

• GE.UMI : Geschichte : Amerika : Indianer
• FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften

Verfasser:
Saunt, Claudio

Verfasser Angabe:
Claudio Saunt

Sprache:
Englisch

• Englisch
• Ureinwohner
• Migration
• Amerika
• Geschichte

Verlag:
W. W. Norton and Company

Erscheinungsort:
New York

Jahr:
2021

Umfang:
396 S.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-0-393-54156-4

Interessenskreise:
American Literature
American Shelves

Inhalt:
A masterful and unsettling history of "Indian Removal," the forced migration of Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s and the state-sponsored theft of their lands.
In May 1830, the United States launched an unprecedented campaign to expel 80,000 Native Americans from their eastern homelands to territories west of the Mississippi River. In a firestorm of fraud and violence, thousands of Native Americans lost their lives, and thousands more lost their farms and possessions. The operation soon devolved into an unofficial policy of extermination, enabled by US officials, southern planters, and northern speculators. Hailed for its searing insight, Unworthy Republic transforms our understanding of this pivotal period in American history.