An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (The Lamar Series in Western History)
Benjamin Madley の『An American Genocide』は、1846年から1873年にかけてのカリフォルニア先住民への暴力と大量殺戮を検証する歴史研究である。国家と州の関与、先住民の抵抗、そして近代カリフォルニア形成の暴力的基盤を描き出している。
作品情報
カリフォルニア先住民への暴力を掘り起こす歴史研究。
Yale University Press から刊行された歴史研究で、ゴールドラッシュ期以後のカリフォルニアで何が起きたのかを、膨大な史料に基づいて再構成する。先住民の視点を含め、長く不可視化されてきた暴力の構造を明らかにする。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Yale University Press
- 発売日
- 2017-06-27
- ページ数
- 520ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.49 x 3.56 x 23.11 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780300230697
- ISBN-10
- 0300230699
- 価格
- 5094 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/History/Americas/United States/19th Century
The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Winner of the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Award for History and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Gruesomely thorough. . . . Others have described some of these campaigns, but never in such strong terms and with so much blame placed directly on the United States government.”—Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek Between 1846 and 1873, California’s Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, Indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide. Madley describes pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $1.7 million on campaigns against California Indians. Besides evaluating government officials’ culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other possible genocides within and beyond the Americas might be investigated using the methods presented in this groundbreaking book.
Benjamin Madley is associate professor of history, University of California, Los Angeles, where he focuses on Native America, the United States, and genocide in world history. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.
レビュー
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Very informative and descriptive history of what the Indigenous people suffered at the hands of those various imperialistic forces that swept over the New World. Sad but eye opening.
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An excellent read and documentation of the disgraceful genocide of the California native Americans! As a southern California coastal archeologist and student of this period of history, I find this collection of work essential and paramount to establish the recorded history of this important time. A difficult but most important read!
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Analyses remarquables superbement orchestrées, étude sachant utiliser les sources abondantes et variées, citations longues et très bien sélectionnées plutôt que des paraphrases, c'est tout ce que j'apprécie dans une étude historique. J'avais déjà lu sur le sujet William Secrest, une étude très intéressante. Le seul petit bémol: un brin excessif de juridisme, mais c'est un défaut très fréquent de ce côté de l'Atlantique.
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Me ha encantado contar la historia sobre los papeles. Solo con las fuentes se puede narrar la historia de California
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Very realistic, well produced story that keeps historical context.
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