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A Post-Exceptionalist Perspective on Early American HistoryConclusion: Understanding Early America

A Post-Exceptionalist Perspective on Early American History: Conclusion: Understanding Early America [The book’s Conclusion summarizes Kakel’s explanation of early American history and suggests what we gain by seeing it in this fresh, post-exceptionalist perspective. It also reasserts the book’s main idea: early American history is a central part of—rather than an exception to—the emerging global histories of imperialism, colonialism, and genocide. It also reasserts its main argument: early American history is best understood as the story of a supplanting society, a society intent on a vast appropriation of Indigenous lands and resources and driven by a logic of elimination and a genocidal imperative to rid the new settler living space of its existing Indigenous inhabitants. And, finally, it also suggests that Indian wars became a template for US imperialism, as well as for other non-US imperial projects.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Post-Exceptionalist Perspective on Early American HistoryConclusion: Understanding Early America

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
ISBN
978-3-030-21304-6
Pages
99 –105
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-21305-3_7
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[The book’s Conclusion summarizes Kakel’s explanation of early American history and suggests what we gain by seeing it in this fresh, post-exceptionalist perspective. It also reasserts the book’s main idea: early American history is a central part of—rather than an exception to—the emerging global histories of imperialism, colonialism, and genocide. It also reasserts its main argument: early American history is best understood as the story of a supplanting society, a society intent on a vast appropriation of Indigenous lands and resources and driven by a logic of elimination and a genocidal imperative to rid the new settler living space of its existing Indigenous inhabitants. And, finally, it also suggests that Indian wars became a template for US imperialism, as well as for other non-US imperial projects.]

Published: Aug 17, 2019

Keywords: Imperialism; Colonialism; Genocide; Frontier; Violence; Early America

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