The invasion of America : Indians, colonialism, and the cant of conquest

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The invasion of America : Indians, colonialism, and the cant of conquest / by Francis Jennings.

Jennings, Francis, 1918- (Author).

Summary:

The cultural devastation of Atlantic coastal Indian tribes by European civilization, particularly New England Puritans, and the creation of an ideology to justify the cruelty are studied. Examines the relationship between European settlers and Native Americans in colonial America, concentrating on New England, and argues that the European settlement should be viewed as a conquest.

Record details

ISBN: 0393008304 :
ISBN: 9780393008302
Physical Description: xiii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Publisher: New York : Norton, 1976, c1975.

Content descriptions

General Note:: Continued by: Ambiguous empire. c1983.

Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Bibliography: p. 337-354.
Formatted Contents Note:: Crusader ideology -- and an alternative -- Widowed land -- Reciprocal discovery -- Savage heathen -- Savage form for peasant function -- Unstable symbiosis -- Lordship and vassalage -- The deed game -- Savage war -- Pioneers -- The dread lord and lords of New England -- Two ways to Connecticut -- We must burn them -- Apostles to the indians -- Lords, subjects and sovereign: a quarter century in ten scenes -- The disunited colonies -- Outrage bloddy and barbarous -- Dead end.