Settler Colonialism examines the genesis in the USA of the first fullfledged settler state in the world, which went beyond its predecessors in 1492 Iberia and Britishcolonized Ireland with an economy based on land sales and enslaved African labor, an implementation of the fiscalmilitary state. Both the liberal and the rightwing versions of the national narrative misrepresent the process of European colonization of North America. Both narratives serve the critical function of preserving the "official story" of a mostly benign and benevolent USA as an anticolonial movement that overthrew British colonialism. The preUS independence settlers were colonial settlers just as they were in Africa and India or like the Spanish in Central and South America. The nation of immigrants myth erases the fact that the United States was founded as a settler state from its inception and spent the next hundred years at war against the Native Nations in conquering the continent. Buried beneath the tons of propagandafrom the landing of the English "pilgrims" (Protestant Christian evangelicals) to James Fenimore Coopers phenomenally popular The Last of the Mohicans claiming settlers "natural rights" not only to the Indigenous peoples territories but also to the territories claimed by other European powersis the fact that the founding of the United States created a division of the Anglo empire, with the US becoming a parallel empire to Great Britain, ultimately overcoming it. From day one, as was...

Binding: Paperback;62 pages; Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc.; Classification: HBTZ; Weight: 232 g; Dimensions: 151 x 227 x 5

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