Clearing the plains

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Revealing how Canada's first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada. In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics-the politics of ethnocide-played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Indigenous people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's National Dream. It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Elizabeth Fenn, an opening by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, 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. Clearing the Plains is a tour de force that dismantles and destroys the view that Canada has a special claim to humanity in its treatment of indigenous peoples. Daschuk shows how infectious disease and state-supported starvation combined to create a creeping, relentless catastrophe that persists to the present day. The prose is gripping, the analysis is incisive, and the narrative is so chilling that it leaves its reader stunned and disturbed. For days after reading it, I was unable to shake a profound sense of sorrow. This is fearless, evidence-driven history at its finest. -Elizabeth A. Fenn, author of Pox Americana Required reading for all Canadians. -Candace Savage, author of A Geography of Blood Clearly written, deeply researched, and properly contextualized history...Essential reading for everyone interested in the history of indigenous North America. -J.R. McNeill, author of Mosquito Empires

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 maart 2019

Aantal pagina's: 386

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: James Daschuk

Tweede Auteur: Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair

Hoofduitgeverij: University Of Regina Press

Editie: 0002

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 6 mm

Product hoogte: 152 mm

Product lengte: 228 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 6 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 152 mm

Verpakking lengte: 228 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 590 g

EAN: 9780889776227

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