This Violent Empire traces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Ameri

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This Violent Empire traces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Ameri

In this ambitious book that ranges across the Great Basin, Blackhawk places Native peoples at the center of a dynamic story as he chronicles two centuries of In

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