Overview
Offers an accessible survey of early American history, rooted in the frameworks of imperialism, colonialism, and genocide
Foregrounds imperial, transnational, and global histories as necessary contexts for understanding early America as a vast settler-colonial project
Shows how the North American “precedent” and its colonial trope of “Indian wars” was used to inspire and legitimate other late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century imperial-colonial projects
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (7 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
Keywords
- American exceptionalism
- national history
- Early American history
- history of Western civilization
- American West
- Genocide in Early America
- American Indian wars
- American Indian history
- Native American history
- supplanting society
- American frontier
- trans-Appalachian West
- settler colonialism
- Japanese empire
- German empire
- French and Indian War
About this book
Reviews
“This is a valuable piece of literature that could promote stimulating discussions in undergraduate and graduate courses alike. … this book makes for especially interesting reading at a time when US legislators are pushing for recognition of the Armenian genocide and criticizing the Chinese government’s well- documented violations of human rights among its Uyghur population.” (Andrew A. Szarejko, American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 44 (3), 2020)
“In his earlier work, The American West and the Nazi East, Kakel brilliantly revealed how the Nazi project of lebensraum was consciously based on the template of United States expansion across the North American continent, which he characterized as ‘colonial genocide.’ In this compact text, he broadens the theme, thoroughly discrediting the promiscuous and ahistorical claim (often propagated by US historians) that the United States is exceptional in not engaging in colonialism, imperialism, or genocide.” (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States)“In this well-researched, intelligent, and important work, Kakel furthers the project of destabilizing the exceptionalist narrative of American history and replacing it with a more accurate framework of a ‘supplanting society,’ one that is best understood as part of a broader global colonial and imperial history. If there was anything ‘exceptional’ about American history, he suggests, it was the imperial violence at its core.” (Walter L. Hixson, Distinguished Professor and author of American Settler Colonialism: A History)
“Have we Americans had an ‘exceptional’ history? Or just a different one? Kakel's well-documented book surveys the entire four hundred years from the earliest colonial settlements to the recent past, and creates a new paradigm—post-exceptionalism—for understanding it.” (Walter Nugent, Tackes Professor of History Emeritus, University of Notre Dame, USA, and author of Color Coded: Party Politics in the American West, 1950–2016)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Post-Exceptionalist Perspective on Early American History
Book Subtitle: American Wests, Global Wests, and Indian Wars
Authors: Carroll P. Kakel III
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21305-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21304-6Published: 29 August 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-21305-3Published: 16 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 138
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: US History, Imperialism and Colonialism, World History, Global and Transnational History, Historiography and Method