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In *American Holocaust*, historian David E. Stannard traces the violent encounter between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the Americas from the first Spanish attacks on the Aravak in the 1490s to the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. He argues that the cumulative brutality of colonization, forced disease, displacement, and massacres reduced the native population by nearly 100 million, amounting to the largest genocide in world history. Stannard examines how European and later American ideologies—shaped by Christian, racial, and militaristic attitudes—enabled this widespread extermination, and he draws parallels between the perpetrators of the American genocide and those of the Holocaust.
First publish date: 1992
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: David E. Stannard
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