The settler country coexists: Michael A. Genovese, Alysa Landry, ‘Introduction: Building an “Empire of Reason” on Stolen Land’, in Michael A. Genovese, Alysa Landry, US Presidents and the Destruction of the Native American Nations, Springer, 2021 | settler colonial studies blog

The settler country coexists: Michael A. Genovese, Alysa Landry, ‘Introduction: Building an “Empire of Reason” on Stolen Land’, in Michael A. Genovese, Alysa Landry, US Presidents and the Destruction of the Native American Nations, Springer, 2021

12Oct21

Abstract: What does the story of European domination of the land and peoples of the “new world” tell us about the ideals and the realities of American political development? A republic founded on the high ideals of equality, fairness, and liberty was also a nation build on violence and racism. How did these “two countries” manage to coexist? And how could men (this is mostly a story of men) who fought for such high ideals, abandon them so easily when confronted with the indigenous peoples who occupied the land they coveted?

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