U.S. Global Domination Based On Slaughter of Aboriginals

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[Ronald Wright]'s devastating and brilliant critique begins with its subtitle, which is a clever play on words. Building on both his 2004 book A Short History of Progress and 1992's Stolen Continents, he argues that it was the conquest of the New World, the integration of its crops into the global food supply and the killing of its inhabitants that fuelled the industrial revolution.

Wright takes the reader from the burning of hundreds of Pequots in Mystic, Conn., in 1637 through to the Cherokee's "Trail of Tears" death march and then to the massacre at Wounded Knee.

Wright sees the conduct and normalization of these historic and ongoing wartime atrocities as deriving from two powerful intellectual and moral streams in American thought: the strict religiosity and sense of "divine mission" of the Puritans and a tradition of anti-intellectualism he refers to as "Backwoods America."

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U.S. Global Domination Based On Slaughter of Aboriginals

Reviewed by Michael Dudley

SINCE Prime Minister Stephen

Harper's historic apology to aboriginal

Canadians, some Americans

are campaigning for a similar

apology from President George W. Bush.

What is America?

A Short History of ...

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