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Laddar... Clearing the Plains : disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Aboriginal life (utgåvan 2013)av James W. Daschuk
VerksinformationClearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life av James Daschuk
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. As the blurbs will tell you Clearing the Plains is a necessary history of the impact of disesase and starvation on First Nations people in Canada. It's necessary because it demonstrates that the presence of colonists and the proliferation of the fur trade were massive components to the spread of these epidemics in a way that was incidental, that is, without intentional malice. The malice comes later, of course, with the ethnic cleansing, withholding of treaty rights, and aforementioned starvation. As with other books on this topic, the sheer number of the dead is overwhelming and difficult to process. A heart breaking book. Daschuk examines the spread of disease across the Canadian plains and how First Nations people were effected. Taking on previously assumed theories such as the well known "smallpox blankets", Daschuk explains and proves how these theories are incorrect or lacking. The research and notations are immense. The expansion of the hbc, the cpr, and in general Canada and how it led to the decimation of First Nations people is well documented. Not an easy book to read by any means but an important one for Canadian history. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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"This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a forward by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Elizabeth Fenn, and explanations of the book's influence by leading Canadian historians. Called "one of the most important books of the twenty-first century" by the Literary Review of Canada, it was named a "Book of the Year" by The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, the Writers' Trust, and won the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, among many others."-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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