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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

byNed Blackhawk

Ned Blackhawk places Native peoples at the center of United States history from European contact to the present. Indigenous nations shape diplomacy, warfare, law, expansion, slavery, capitalism, citizenship, and federal power rather than appearing only as victims who vanish before the national story begins. The book synthesizes generations of scholarship to show survival, adaptation, resistance, and resurgence across diverse communities. Blackhawk argues that American history must be “rediscovered” by abandoning a Europe-centered framework, because the country's institutions and territory cannot be understood without the Native nations that confronted and transformed them.

Publisher

Yale University Press

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

616

ISBN

9780300244052