{"product_id":"indigenous-continent-146942-1","title":"Indigenous Continent","description":"There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this:        Columbus ''discovers'' a strange continent and brings back tales of untold      riches. The European empires rush over, eager to stake out as much of this      astonishing ''New World'' as possible. Though Indigenous peoples fight back,    they cannot stop the onslaught. White imperialists are destined to rule the     continent, and history is an irreversible march toward Indigenous destruction.  Yet as with other long-accepted origin stories, this one, too, turns out to be  based in myth and distortion. In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian PekkaHämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic    assumptions about American history. Shifting our perspective away from          Jamestown, Plymouth Rock, the Revolution, and other well-trodden episodes on the conventional timeline, he depicts a sovereign world of Native nations whosemembers, far from helpless victims of colonial violence, dominated the continentfor centuries after the first European arrivals. From the Iroquois in the       Northeast to the Comanches on the Plains, and from the Pueblos in the Southwest to the Cherokees in the Southeast, Native nations frequently decimated white    newcomers in battle. Even as the white population exploded and colonists' land  greed grew more extravagant, Indigenous peoples flourished due to sophisticated diplomacy and leadership structures. By 1776, various colonial powers claimed   nearly all of the continent, but Indigenous peoples still controlled it-as      Hämäläinen points out, the maps in modern textbooks that paint much of North    America in neat, color-coded blocks confuse outlandish imperial boasts for actual holdings. In fact, Native power peaked in the late nineteenth century,  with the Lakota victory in 1876 at Little Big Horn, which was not an American   blunder, but an all-too-expected outcome. Hämäläinen ultimately contends that   the","brand":"University of Cincinnati Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Book \/ Standard","offer_id":47880528887946,"sku":"026385953","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0587\/7642\/files\/9781631496998.jpg?v=1774633195","url":"https:\/\/cincinnati.bkstr.com\/products\/indigenous-continent-146942-1","provider":"University of Cincinnati Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}