The American West and the Nazi East: A Comparative and Interpretive Perspective, Carroll P. Kakel III (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 320 pp., hardcover 80.00/£55, e-book available
In The Winning of the American West, Theodore Roosevelt described the racial conflict between White Europeans and native American Indians as “the spread of the English-speaking people over the world's waste space,” and “the most striking feature of the world's history.” Brushing aside the...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 26, Issue: 3, Pages: 499-502 |
| Review of: | The American West and the Nazi East (Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) (Fischer, Klaus P.)
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| Summary: | In The Winning of the American West, Theodore Roosevelt described the racial conflict between White Europeans and native American Indians as “the spread of the English-speaking people over the world's waste space,” and “the most striking feature of the world's history.” Brushing aside the moral qualms some felt, the future president observed that only a “warped, perverse, and silly morality” would condemn the conquest of the West. He did not have much to worry about because few contemporary Americans condemned the means employed against the Indians: stripping them of their ancestral lands, hounding them from one “inviolable” territory to another, massacring thousands, forcing children to undergo “Americanization,” and herding people into barren reservations. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcs067 |