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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... read more
First Sentence
IT'S GONE NOW, drained and desiccated in the aftrermath of the Spanish conquest, but once there was an interconnected complex of lakes high up in the Valley of Mexico that was as long and as wide as the city of London is today.
Table of Contents
Prologue
I. Before Columbus
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
II. Pestilence and Genocide
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
III. Sex, Race, and Holy War
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Epilogue
Appendixes
Appendix I: On Pre-Columbian Settlement and Population
Appendix II: On Racism and Genocide
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
Authors & Contributors
- David E. Stannard (Author)
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