The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century
奴隷制、白人至上主義、入植植民地主義、資本主義の起源をたどり、アメリカ形成史の神話を問い直す歴史研究。
作品情報
奴隷制、白人至上主義、入植植民地主義、資本主義の起源をたどり、アメリカ形成史の神話を問い直す歴史研究。
奴隷制、白人至上主義、入植植民地主義、資本主義の起源をたどり、アメリカ形成史の神話を問い直す歴史研究。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Monthly Review Pr
- 発売日
- 2020-06-30
- ページ数
- 303ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.97 x 2.06 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781583678732
- ISBN-10
- 1583678735
- 価格
- 22044 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Sociology/Race Relations/Discrimination & Racism
Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne troubles America's settler colonialism's "creation myth" August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what was said to be the first arrival of enslaved Africans occurred in North America. Yet in the 1520s, the Spanish, from their imperial perch in Santo Domingo, had already brought enslaved Africans to what was to become South Carolina. The enslaved people here quickly defected to local Indigenous populations, and compelled their captors to flee. Deploying such illuminating research, The Dawning of the Apocalypse is a riveting revision of the creation myth of settler colonialism and how the United States was formed. Here, Gerald Horne argues forcefully that, in order to understand the arrival of colonists from the British Isles in the early seventeenth century, one must first understand the long sixteenth century from 1492 until the arrival of settlers in Virginia in 1607. During this prolonged century, Horne contends, whiteness morphed into white supremacy, and allowed England to co-opt not only religious minorities but also various nationalities throughout Europe, thus forging a muscular bloc that was needed to confront rambunctious Indigenes and Africans. In retelling the bloodthirsty story of the invasion of the Americas, Horne recounts how the fierce resistance by Africans and their Indigenous allies weakened Spain and enabled London to dispatch settlers to Virginia in 1607. These settlers laid the groundwork for the British Empire and its revolting spawn that became the United States of America.
Gerald Horne is John J. and Rebecca Moores Professor of African American History at the University of Houston. He has published more than three dozen books, including The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism and Jazz and Justice , both by Monthly Review Press.
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I really struggled to read this book. I felt that I was just ploughing through a torrent of names and dates with absolutely no idea where I was heading. I have never felt so disengaged with a book. The random insertion of climate catastrophe at the end spoke volumes. I have no idea what the aim of this book is supposed to be. I'll leave it for more erudite reviewers to better analyse this book.
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A must read! History is not a racial construct of black history versus white history, but the telling of facts woven through time. There is only human history and Gerald Horne once again delivers historical facts overlooked by mainstream historians. He is one of our great historians and his books should be on the shelves of anyone who wants to be well informed.
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For years I wondered why the ancients anticipated with such horror the idea of a person’s dead body lying unburied a prey to birds and beasts. Since they’re dead anyway what’s the difference I thought. Then I read in Gerald Horne’s breezy history of the long sixteenth century, The Dawning of the Apocalypse, that after the Spanish in Florida massacred the French Huguenots, the beard and skin of the Huguenot leader, Jean Ribaut, was “ sent to His Catholic Majesty, and his [Jean’s] head split into quarters.” (p.111). Now since a human instinctively regards its body as a unity, anticipating a piece of it flying south in the gut of a gull, a piece winding north in the stomach of a snake, and especially, if only out of habit, trying to keep track of four pieces of a head would probably give anyone, ancient or modern, an instant headache.
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How it is being said for ALL to overstand how and why
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Horne's account of the development of "whiteness" is deep and engaging. His qualitative examination of slavery as an institution practiced by the Ottomans, Spain, Portugal, England, and the U.S. provides the reader with an insight that few other academics discussing the matter provide. I can not help but recall Sakai's "Settlers" and Allen's "The Invention of the White Race" while engaging with Horne's work. There is also more than a passing similarity with Losurdoin terms of prose and critical assessment of European whiteness and/as religious radicalism. If there is a complaint it involves Horne's non-sequential use of the temporal context to make his points. This may be more of a comprehension failure on my part, but sentences or paragraphs jumping from say the 15th century, then to the 12th, then to the 14th or some other were tough to follow; though grasping the points being made is worth the work. I really cannot recommend this work more.
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