{"product_id":"9780300230697-an-american-genocide","title":"An American Genocide","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2016 \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award for History and a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors’ Choice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Gruesomely thorough. Others have described some of these campaigns, but never in such strong terms and with so much blame placed directly on the United States government.”—Alexander Nazaryan, \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Between 1846 and 1873, California’s Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover 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. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide.\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e Madley 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. The state and federal governments spent at least $1.7 million on campaigns against California Indians. Besides evaluating government officials’ culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other possible genocides within and beyond the Americas might be investigated using the methods presented in this groundbreaking book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57059022274934,"sku":"9780300230697","price":26.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27154664.jpg?v=1768373331","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780300230697-an-american-genocide","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}