American Settler Colonialism

Chapter 1 Introduction: Settler Colonialism, History, and Theory

Chapter 2 “People from the Unknown World”: The Colonial Encounter and the Acceleration of Violence

Chapter 3 “No Savage Shall Inherit the Land”: Settler Colonialism through the American Revolution

Chapter 4 “The Savage and Common Enemy of the Country”: US Settler Colonialism to the Mississippi River

Chapter 5 “Scenes of Agony and Blood”: Settler Colonialism and the Mexican and Civil Wars

Chapter 6 “They Promised to Take Our Land and They Took It”: Settler Colonialism in the American West

Chapter 7 “Spaces of Denial”: American Settler Colonialism in Hawai’i and Alaska

Chapter 8 “Things Too Scandalous to Write”: The Philippine Intervention and the Continuities of Colonialism

Chapter 9 “A Very Particular Kind of Inclusion”: Indigenous People in the Postcolonial United States