Native America and the Question of GenocideAlex Alvarez
In this rather short book of some 200 pages, Alex Alvarez has tackled an intriguing and increasingly controversial issue: What kind of name do we use to explain the crime that Europeans inflicted upon the American Indian? The issue did not appear in the scholarship in the decades following the Secon...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2017
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 31, Issue: 1, Pages: 137-138 |
| Review of: | Native America and the question of genocide (Lanham, Md. [u.a.] : Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) (Clayton Anderson, Gary)
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| Summary: | In this rather short book of some 200 pages, Alex Alvarez has tackled an intriguing and increasingly controversial issue: What kind of name do we use to explain the crime that Europeans inflicted upon the American Indian? The issue did not appear in the scholarship in the decades following the Second World War, when genocide became the commonly accepted term for explaining what had happened to the Jews of Europe. Arguments for defining what had happened to Native Americans increasingly found their way into American historiography following the collapse of Yugoslavia and the terrible slaughter that occurred there. Alvarez takes a topical approach, discussing disease, wars and massacres, exile (deportation), assimilation (cultural genocide), and yes, genocide. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcx013 |