American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World

408 Pages·1993·13.4 MB·English

by  David E. Stannard

AMERICAN
HOLOCAUST

AMERICAN
HOLOCAUST
The Conquest of the New World
DAVID E. STANNARD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York Oxford
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Copyright © 1992 by David E. Stannard
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For Florence Evelyn Harwood Stannard
-the poet who gave me /if e and taught me that in kindness
and charity there is strength
and for Haunani-Kay Trask
-the poet who sustains me and is unwavering in the
struggle for justice
CONTENTS
Prologuiex
I BEFORE COLUMBUS
Chapt1e r3
Chapt2e r1 7
II PESTILENCE AND GENOCIDE
Chapt3e r5 7
Chapt4e r9 7
III SEX, RACE, AND HOLY WAR
Chapt5e r1 49
Chapt6e r1 95
Epilogu24e7
APPENDIXES
AppendIi:xO n Pre-ColumSbeitatnl ement and
Populati2o61n
AppendIiI;:cO: n Racisamn dG enocid2e69
Acknowledgme2n83t s
Notes2 85
Index3 47

PROLOGUE
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am become death,
the shatterer of worlds.
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