Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Dawning of the ApocalypseCondition: NewEAN: 9781583678725ISBN: 9781583678725Publisher: Monthly Review Press,U.S.Format: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/01/2020Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Gerald HorneLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth CenturyDescription: August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what was said to be the first arrival of enslaved Africans occurred in North America. Yet in the 1520s, the Spanish, from their imperial perch in Santo Domingo, had already brought enslaved Africans to what was to become South Carolina. The enslaved people quickly defected to local Indigenous populations, and compelled their captors to flee. Deploying such illuminating research, The Dawning of the Apocalypse is a riveting revision of the “creation myth” of settler colonialism and how the United States was formed. Here, Gerald Horne argues forcefully that, in order to understand the arrival of colonists from the British Isles in the early seventeenth century, one must first understand the “long sixteenth century”—from 1492 until the arrival of settlers in Virginia in 1607.During this prolonged century, Horne contends, “whiteness” morphed into “white supremacy,” and allowed England to co-opt not only religious minorities but also various nationalities throughout Europe, thus forging a muscular bloc that was needed to confront rambunctious Indigenes and Africans. In retelling the bloodthirsty story of the invasion of the Americas, Horne recounts how the fierce resistance by Africans and their Indigenous allies weakened Spain and enabled London to dispatch settlers to Virginia in 1607. These settlers laid the groundwork for the British Empire and what became the United States of America.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Dawning of the Apocalypse
Title: The Dawning of the Apocalypse
EAN: 9781583678725
ISBN: 9781583678725
Release Date: 09/01/2020
Release Year: 2020
Subtitle: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and C
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Dawning of the Apocalypse : The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Slavery, Modern / 16th Century, Social History
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12.8 Oz
Item Length: 8.2 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Author: Gerald Horne
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
