Stolen Continents: Five Hundred Years Of Conquest And Resistance In The Americas

Ronald Wright
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Powerful and passionate, Stolen Continents is a history of the Americas unlike any other. This incisive single-volume report tells the stories of the conquest and survival of five great American cultures ? Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee, and Iroquois. Through their eloquent words, we relive their strange, tragic experiences ? including, in a new epilogue, incidents that bring us up to the twenty-first century.
Genres: HistoryNonfictionNative AmericanIndigenousPoliticsAnthropologyThe AmericasCanadaAmericanAmerican History
430 Pages

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