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L'olocausto americano iniziò nel momento stesso della scoperta del Nuovo Mondo. Poche ore dopo aver toccato terra nel 1492 Colombo aveva già catturato sei nativi, dei quali scrisse che «dovrebbero essere buoni schiavi e sarebbero facilmente divenuti cristiani». Il genocidio vero e proprio iniziò poi a Hispaniola nel 1494: nel giro di pochi mesi le malattie, i soldati, i preti e i cani da caccia del «Po...

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For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people. Indeed, as historian David E. Stannard argues in this stun...

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Contributors: Philippe Ariès, Ann Douglas, Stanley French, Jack Goody, Patricia Fernández Kelly, Mary Ann Meyers, Lewis O. Saum, David E. Stannard

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Stannard says that the European and white American destruction of the native peoples of the Americas was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. Moreover, the perpetrators of the American Holocaust drew on the same ideological wellspring as did the later architects of the Nazi Holocaust--an ideology that remains dangerously alive today. Photos and line drawings.

Studies the burgeoning field of psychohistory - from Freud, its primogenitor, to its present-day academic practitioners - and argues that little, if any, psychohistory is good histor. The author systematically points out the pitfalls, sheer irrationality, and ultimately ahistorical nature of this mode of historical inquiry.

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Dopo una prima parte dedicata alla ricostruzione delle culture native delle Americhe prima del 1492, Stannard fornisce tutti gli elementi di fatto necessari per capire la dimensione umana della distruzione prodotta su scala continentale dalla violenza e dalla introduzione di malattie mortali. Descrive poi il contesto ideologico e sociale di quelle che furono eufemisticamente chiamate le 'guerre indiane' negli Stati Uniti per interrogarsi infin...

In the fall of 1931, Thalia Massie, the bored, aristocratic wife of a young naval officer stationed in Honolulu, accused six nonwhite islanders of gang rape. The ensuing trial let loose a storm of racial and sexual hysteria, but the case against the suspects was scant and the trial ended in a hung jury. Outraged, Thalia's socialite mother arranged the kidnapping and murder of one of the suspects. In the spectacularly publicized trial that foll...