美国种族灭绝：美国与加利福尼亚印第安人灾难，1846-1873 年 An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 Benjamin Madley

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 520 pages, 72 b-w illus.

Publisher:Yale University Press

Imprint:Yale University Press

ISBN:9780300230697

Published:24 Oct 2017

Classifications:California, c 1800 to c 1900, History of the Americas, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Genocide & ethnic cleansing

Weight:658g

Dimensions:157 x 234 x 29 (mm)

基本信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这是一本描述政府在美国统治下对加州印第安人进行种族灭绝的书，获得2016年《洛杉矶时报》历史图书奖和《纽约时报》书评编辑选择“彻底得可怕……”

． 其他人也描述了其中的一些运动，但从来没有如此强烈的措辞，也没有将如此多的责任直接归咎于美国政府。——亚历山大·纳扎尔扬，《新闻周刊》1846年至1873年间，加州的印度人口从大约15万骤降至3万。本杰明·马德利（Benjamin Madley）是揭露屠杀的程度、州和联邦官员的参与、支持暴力的纳税人资金、土著抵抗、谁实施了杀戮，以及杀戮为何结束的历史学家。

这本经过深入研究的书是一部关于美国种族灭绝的令人不寒而栗的历史。马德利在解释淘金热如何激起针对加州印第安人的治安维持会暴力之前，描述了接触前的加利福尼亚和种族灭绝的前兆。他叙述了国家认可的杀人机器的兴起，以及对种族灭绝的广泛的社会、司法和政治支持。

许多人都参加了：义务警员、志愿州民兵、美国陆军士兵、美国国会议员、州长等。

州政府和联邦政府在反对加州印第安人的运动上至少花费了170万美元。除了评估政府官员的罪责外，马德利还考虑了为什么这次屠杀构成了种族灭绝，以及如何使用这本开创性的书中提出的方法来调查美洲内外其他可能发生的种族灭绝。

The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Winner of the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Award for History and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “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, Newsweek  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.   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.

作者简介

本杰明·马德利，加州大学洛杉矶分校历史学副教授，主要研究美洲原住民、美国和世界历史上的种族灭绝。他住在加州洛杉矶。

Benjamin Madley is associate professor of history, University of California, Los Angeles, where he focuses on Native America, the United States, and genocide in world history. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.