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A carregar... Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History (The Penguin History of American Life) (original 2008; edição 2009)por Karl Jacoby (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Retelling of a key massacre in the Arizona territory from the perspective of Anglo whites, Hispanics, and various Native bands (misunderstood as tribes or as generic Apaches). ( ) The background of the massacre from the point of view of each of the four ethnic groups involved: Mexican, "American," Apace and Tohono O'odham. Extremely well-researched, but popularly written. Not so much a look at "who was to blame," but how the tragedy grew out of the various cultures that came together at Camp Grant in a violent outburst. If one were to read one book to get the facts and feel of the event, this would be it.
…[P]resents a fairly straightforward analysis of the events leading up to the Araviapa Canyon attack and does not attempt to present a theoretical explanation for the violence of the frontier or colonialism. The major contribution… is Jacoby’s portrait of each group’s distinctive perspective.… [A]lso highlights the difficulty of subaltern histories—preserving the perspective of conquered peoples, which tends to be lost or destroyed. …[A] crisply readable history — four of them, in fact, with the Apache, the Anglos, the vecinos and the O'odham allotted two chapters each. Jacoby does a good job outlining the causes of the massacre from each point of view.… [E]ven better is the way in which he paints a picture of the often intimate relationships and shifting loyalties between each group.… A searching study of one of the American West’s signature massacres, distinguished by the multiethnic nature of its perpetrators and the legal case that ensued.… A lucid, well-written work of regional history that opens necessary conversation and has broader implications—essential for students of the American West. Pertence à Série da Editora
Predawn, April 30, 1871, a party of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O'odham Indians gathered outside an Apache camp in the Arizona borderlands. At first light they struck, murdering nearly 150 Apaches, mostly women and children, in their sleep. In its day, the atrocity, known as the Camp Grant Massacre, generated unparalleled national attention--federal investigations, heated debate in the press, and a tense criminal trial. This was the era of the United States' "peace policy" toward Indians, and the Apaches had been living on a would-be reservation, under the supposed protection of the U.S. Army. President Grant decried the act as "purely murder," but American settlers countered that the distant U.S. government had failed to protect them from Apache attacks. The massacre has since largely faded from memory. Now, drawing on oral histories, newspaper reports, and participants' accounts, author Karl Jacoby brings this horrific incident and tumultuous era to life.--From publisher description. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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