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American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World
Written by David E. Stannard
Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner
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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 time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people. Indeed, as historian David E. Stannard argues in this stunning new book, the European and white American destruction of the native peoples of the Americas was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world.
Stannard reveals that wherever Europeans or white Americans went, the native people were caught between imported plagues and barbarous atrocities, typically resulting in the annihilation of 95 percent of their populations. What kind of people, he asks, do such horrendous things to others? His highly provocative answer: Christians. Digging deeply into ancient European and Christian attitudes toward sex, race, and war, he finds the cultural ground well prepared by the end of the Middle Ages for the centuries-long genocide campaign that Europeans and their descendants launched-and in places continue to wage-against the New World's original inhabitants.
Stannard reveals that wherever Europeans or white Americans went, the native people were caught between imported plagues and barbarous atrocities, typically resulting in the annihilation of 95 percent of their populations. What kind of people, he asks, do such horrendous things to others? His highly provocative answer: Christians. Digging deeply into ancient European and Christian attitudes toward sex, race, and war, he finds the cultural ground well prepared by the end of the Middle Ages for the centuries-long genocide campaign that Europeans and their descendants launched-and in places continue to wage-against the New World's original inhabitants.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent! One of the best I ever listen to !
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Let me remind you this issues such as health care, land and treaty rights, about U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians with historical documents of genocide of native peoples in America,which have been implemented upon indigenous peoples of North America. Writing a column is sometimes an arduous to talk about American Indian Genocide: Christopher Columbus, under Queen Isabella of Spain, initiates the European invasion lie U.K. a physical traces of ethnic cleansing that took place in as well as state governments brutally executing every one without exception; from the grandmothers to grandfathers. lawmakers easily passed a measure to make it a crime to deny the ethics killings.