Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee
U.S. Empire and the Transformation of an Indigenous World, 1792-1859
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2010
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New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-7109-6 (ISBN)
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-7109-6 (ISBN)
Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States. This book examines relations among newcomers and between newcomers and Native people - focusing on political sovereignty, religion, trade, sexuality, and the land - from initial encounters to Oregon's statehood.
Western expansion reevaluated as continental U.S. colonialism. Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States. In this book, Gray Whaley examines relations among newcomers and between newcomers and Native peoples - focusing on political sovereignty, religion, trade, sexuality, and the land - from initial encounters to Oregon's statehood. He emphasizes Native perspectives, using the Chinook word Illahee (homeland) to refer to the indigenous world he examines. Whaley argues that the process of Oregon's founding is best understood as a contest between the British empire and a nascent American one, with Oregon's Native people and their lands at the heart of the conflict. He identifies race, republicanism, liberal economics, and violence as the key ideological and practical components of American settler-colonialism. Native people faced capriciousness, demographic collapse, and attempted genocide, but they fought to preserve Illahee even as external forces caused the collapse of their world. Whaley's analysis compellingly challenges standard accounts of the quintessential antebellum ""Promised Land.
Western expansion reevaluated as continental U.S. colonialism. Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States. In this book, Gray Whaley examines relations among newcomers and between newcomers and Native peoples - focusing on political sovereignty, religion, trade, sexuality, and the land - from initial encounters to Oregon's statehood. He emphasizes Native perspectives, using the Chinook word Illahee (homeland) to refer to the indigenous world he examines. Whaley argues that the process of Oregon's founding is best understood as a contest between the British empire and a nascent American one, with Oregon's Native people and their lands at the heart of the conflict. He identifies race, republicanism, liberal economics, and violence as the key ideological and practical components of American settler-colonialism. Native people faced capriciousness, demographic collapse, and attempted genocide, but they fought to preserve Illahee even as external forces caused the collapse of their world. Whaley's analysis compellingly challenges standard accounts of the quintessential antebellum ""Promised Land.
Gray Whaley is assistant professor of history at Southern Illinois University - Carbondale.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.6.2010 |
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| Verlagsort | Chapel Hill |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 154 x 233 mm |
| Gewicht | 479 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8078-7109-5 / 0807871095 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8078-7109-6 / 9780807871096 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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