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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image cartographique. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Madley, Benjamin
Titre(s) : An American genocide [Texte imprimé] : the United States and the California Indian catastrophe, 1846-1873 / Benjamin Madley
Édition : First paperback edition
Publication : New Haven (Conn.) : Yale University Press, [2016]
Description matérielle : xv, 498 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Collection : The Lamar series in Western history
Lien à la collection : The Lamar series in Western history
Note(s) : "This paperback edition does not contain the appendixes included in the hardcover
edition. All appendixes can be found at yalebooks.com/american-genocide-appendix."
--Title page verso. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-472) and index. - Winner, Los Angeles Times Book Prizes
Provides an account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under
United States rule. Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged
from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Madley uncovers the full extent of the slaughter,
the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported
the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended.
He describes pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining
how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates
the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and
political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen,
U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. Ultimately,
the state and federal governments spent at least
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : United States and the California Indian catastrophe, 1846-1873
Sujet(s) : Génocide -- Californie (États-Unis) -- 19e siècle
Indiens d'Amérique -- Californie (États-Unis) -- 19e siècle
Indiens d'Amérique -- États-Unis -- Crimes contre -- Californie (États-Unis) -- 19e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
979.404 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - Californie - 1848-1899
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0300230699. - ISBN 9780300230697
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45706159r
Notice n° :
FRBNF45706159
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : California Indians before 1846 ; Prelude to genocide: March 1846-March 1848 ; Gold,
immigrants, and killers from Oregon: March 1848-May 1850 ; Turning point: the killing
campaigns of December 1849-May 1850 ; Legislating exclusion and vulnerability: 1846-1853
; Rise of the killing machine: militias and vigilantes, April 1850-December 1854
; Perfecting the killing machine: December 1854-March 1861 ; The Civil War in California
and its aftermath: March 1861-1871.
Appendices (not included, see note). Reports of nonspecific numbers of California
Indians killed, 1846-1873 ; Reports of fewer than five California Indians killed,
1846-1873 ; Reports of five or more California Indians killed, 1846-1873 ; Reports
of non-Indians killed by California Indians, 1846-1873 ; Selected massacres with
contested death tolls, 1846-1866 ; Major volunteer California state militia expeditions,
1850-1861 ; Reports of California Indians killed by US army soldiers and their auxiliaries,
1846-1873 ; The United Nations Genocide Convention.
