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The Rediscovery of America

Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

By: Ned Blackhawk

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The Rediscovery of America

Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

By: Ned Blackhawk

A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non‑Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. In this transformative synthesis he shows that • European colonization in the 1600s was never a predetermined success; • Native nations helped shape England’s crisis of empire; • the first shots of the American Revolution were prompted by Indian affairs in the interior; • California Indians targeted by federally funded militias were among the first casualties of the Civil War; • the Union victory forever recalibrated Native communities across the West; • twentieth-century reservation activists refashioned American law and policy. Blackhawk’s retelling of U.S. history acknowledges the enduring power, agency, and survival of Indigenous peoples, yielding a truer account of the United States and revealing anew the varied meanings of America.

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611

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Yale University Press

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0300271247

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9780300271249

Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta

A Call for Reclamation

By: Ned Randolph

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Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta

A Call for Reclamation

By: Ned Randolph

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta uses the story of mud to answer a deceptively simple question: How can a place uniquely vulnerable to sea level rise be one of the nation's most promiscuous producers and consumers of fossil fuels? Organized around New Orleans and South Louisiana as a case study, this book examines how the unruly Mississippi River and its muddy delta shaped the people, culture, and governance of the region. It proposes a framework of "muddy thinking" to gum the wheels of extractive capitalism and pollution that have brought us to the precipice of planetary collapse. Muddy Thinking calls upon our dirty, shared histories to address urgent questions of mutual survival and care in a rapidly changing world.

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268

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Univ of California Press

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0520397207

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9780520397200

Robert Moskowitz

By: Robert Moskowitz,Ned Rifkin

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Robert Moskowitz

By: Robert Moskowitz,Ned Rifkin

Catalog of an exhibition held June 21-September 17, 1989 at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, October 20, 1989-January 7, 1990 at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, and February 9-April 24, 1990 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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Thames & Hudson

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0500091994

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9780500091999

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The Rediscovery of America

The Rediscovery of America

Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta

Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta

Robert Moskowitz

Robert Moskowitz

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