. "A briliant, bold, gripping history."&;Simon Sebag Montefiore, BiblioCore: app20 Version 8.33.1 Last updated 2020/09/08 12:21, New Haven :, Yale University Press,, 2019, ix, 530 pages :,illustrations, maps ;,25 cm. Lakota America. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this groundbreaking book they emerge as something different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations. You’ll catch something roiling beneath that professional composure: a lively truculence that gives this book its pulse, and its purpose. Paperback / softback. . Highly recommend this book. (p 223) Just one of the questions raised as one reads Lakota America is whether the Lakota nation was a civilization. He is nuanced, nimble, and wise, with an uncanny capacity for reinvention as new understandings come to light. Copyright © 2020 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. “Deeply researched, epic in scale, interpretatively adventurous, and ambitious, “Like the Lakotas he studies, Pekka Hämäläinen is a shapeshifter. October 22nd 2019 Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas’ roots as marginal hunter†‘gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America… 4.8, 4 Ratings; $16.99; $16.99 ; Publisher Description. £16.99 . His previous book, https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300215953/lakota-america, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. “My favorite non-fiction book of this year.”—Tyler Cowen. If you're unable to download and install Firefox, you may also place your order directly from our fulfillment warehouse, Triliteral, by calling 1-800-405-1619. Lakota America takes us from the 16th century to the present, with painstaking, carefully marshaled detail, but its real feat is in threading how the Lakota philosophy and vision of the world guided their reinventions and their dealings with colonial powers. According to Felipe Fernandez-Armesto in his book, Civilizations, it is "a relationship between man and nature". He has served as the principal investigator of a five-year project on nomadic empires in world history, funded by the European Research Council. Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power . To read Lakota America is to rethink American history itself.”—Elizabeth Fenn, University of Colorado Boulder, “Lakota America is beautifully researched, persuasively argued, and justifiably audacious in its reach and implications. Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power This is a text that needs to get in front of students in these United States! "A briliant, bold, gripping history. Though personally I still prefer his epic accounting of the indigenous power politics of the Comanche, this is every bit the work of important scholarship that that prior book was. . Providence and the Invention of American History, Social Constellations and Settlement Practice, White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic, Price: It is an enjoyable read and a solid one volume update to some of the older works that are out there. The book’s narative is sweeping in scope and concept, intimate in detail, and persistent in the themes articulated. This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty‑first century. History is as much about what is recorded in documents as what people hold in oral memory and how that history is viewed and felt in t. I met the author in the fall of 2016 when he visited Sitting Bull College Library on Standing Rock where I was the librarian at the time. Lakota America A New History of Indigenous Power. Hamalainen knocks it out of the park again. Ludwig von Mises, in his book Theory and History, claims that "Civilization is like a biological being; it is born, grows, matures, decays, and dies." The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America’s history Named One of the New York Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 • Named One of the 10 Best History Books of 2019 by Smithsonian Magazine • Winner of the MPIBA Reading the West Book Award for narrative nonfiction "Turned many of the stories I thought I knew about our nation inside … Producers. "—Cornelia Channing, Paris Review, Favorite Books of 2019, “[. Pekka Hämäläinen is the Rhodes Professor of American History and Fellow of St. Catherine’s College at Oxford University. . Many histories of the United States still depict Lakotas as ‘props’ or ignore them altogether. 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Winner of the Western Heritage Book Award for Nonfiction, sponsored by  the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies, Winner of the 2020 Spur Award, sponsored by the Western Writers of America, Finalist in the PROSE Awards North American and U.S. History category, sponsored by the Association of American Publishers, “Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse live in history as great warriors. Start by marking “Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power” as Want to Read: Error rating book. It exposes the biases of western/white-oriented narratives of this era and geographic region, but it does so while using the same tools of erudition, and scholarship, and measured-ness, and historical fact, as any history coming from an academic/scholarly tradition. There are no comments for this title yet. "An important addition to the fields of North American imperial, Indigenous, and even environmental histories. On that note, I wished he had incorporated more of those local sources and informants. The result is stunning. . Please ensure you're using that browser before attempting to purchase. It's not at all like. This was quite interesting; it functions as both a history of the Lakota, and a history of the American West from a Lakota perspective. “Pekka Hämäläinen’s impressive history is also a quarrel with the field, with how history — especially the history of indigenous Americans — has been told and sold”, Copyright 2020 - Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL What is civilization? This is classical history, in both tone and scholarship--if that means something to anyone but me. Refresh and try again. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas’ roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America’s great commercial artery, and then—in what was America’s first sweeping westward expansion—as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains. Winner of the Western Heritage Book Award for Nonfiction, sponsored by  the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies, Winner of the 2020 Spur Award, sponsored by the Western Writers of America, Finalist in the PROSE Awards North American and U.S. History category, sponsored by the Association of American Publishers, Winner of the 2020 West Book Award for Narrative Nonfiction, sponsored by the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association, Finalist in the High Plains Book Awards, Non-fiction category, sponsored by The Billings Public Library, Longlisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize, sponsored by McGill University, Shortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding sponsored by The British Academy. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. There are no age suitabilities for this title yet. History from a completely different point of view, where wasicu (white) politics are incidental for hundreds of years, until they become the problem. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/books/review-lakota-america-pekka-hamalainen.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytbooks . In order to purchase a book title from our shopping cart you must download and install the Mozilla Firefox browser. Really enjoyed the images throughout as well. According to Felipe Fernandez-Armesto in his book, Civilizations, it is "a relationship between man and nature". 24 November 2020. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas’ roots as marginal hunter‑gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America… I knew this would be a good book in part because of the author's effort to visit the people he was writing about and seek out local sources. It's a completely different tone from, say, a Zinn book, where I often feel like I'm being told how to feel about the facts, without being told the facts to begin with. This book definitely does that, although at times it almost gives too much, and reads more like a textbook. . We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience. (p 14) In his estimation it is contingent upon the environment in which a people exist. In-depth conversations with experts on topics that matter. The Lakotas are imprinted in American historical memory. . Please see our. (p 3) Whether he succeeds in finding that solution or not, he has produced a voluminous record of the Lakota and other indigenous Indian tribes in America from the 17th century to the end of the 19th. © Copyright Yale University Press London 2020. Hämäläinen “recounts his story with unusual verve. As someone who grew up in the Dakotas, I was curious to know more about the history of the Lakota peoples. . Hämäläinen has the novelist’s relish for the strange, pungent detail . ISBN: 9780300255256. The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America’s history, Four Essays in American Colonial History, Revised Edition, Charles McLean Andrews; Foreword by Leonard W. Labaree, Volume 15: January 1, 1768, through December 31 1768, A Reader’s Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest, Technical Literacy and Early Industrial Expansion in the United States, The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo.