Buy this book on-line BROWN, DEE: : BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE: AN INDIAN HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WESTLONDON.THE HISTORY BOOK CLUB,1972. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus thus.VG/VG-. No owner inscrptn and as a History Book Club book issue - absence of a published price means an unclipped dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,3/4 wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Frederick S. Remington (The Sign of the Buffalo Scout,1907),illustrated dw/dj with black letters,similar lettering to continuation of illustration to an inevitably but slightly sunned/faded spine/backstrip,rear panel also but partially illustrated and with white-lettered Indian Chiefs' quotes(2).Negligible shelf-wear, creasing and some minimal chipping occuring reciprocal loss to edges and corners – no major tears or splits present.Majority of closed tears to top edges and top corner tips of dw/dj minimally rubbed and again,with reciprocal concomitant loss - due in part,to brittle laminate and it's breakdown and deterioration with the passage of time.Top+fore-edges both with light ageing/toning; top with minimal blemishes,fore with age discolouration flecking but no foxing/spotting; text block contents internally are bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corners – near pristine,appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher’s bright,crisp, clean,reasonably sharp-cornered,original,plain chocolate brown cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip and clean plain white sets of endpapers.UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,xii-xviipp+1-487pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/table,an author's own Introduction,19 chapters,profuse contemporary Native Indians' b/w portrait photographs,lyrical language+musically notated diagrams of Native Indian songs,chants etc interspersed within the text,Notes,an 8 and a half page bibliography,and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title with,to its verso,half of a double-paged American West 1865-1890,b/w countrywide map with key historical insets and their durations spanning the whole period: Red River Country '65-85,Little Big Horn & Powder Rivers '65-76,Apache Campaign '65-86,Sioux-Cheyenne Campaign '65-'90 and The North-west '65-'90 respectively,verso of 2nd page of map with half of double-paged title,a dedication with blank verso,a contents list/table also with blank verso,and 2pp blanks at rear of the book.
First and originally published in 1970 (US, Holt,Rinehart & Winston and UK,BARRIE & JENKINS),this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country.
Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men,women,and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota,it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society.During these three decades,America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million.
Again and again,promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives.The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations,and were starved and killed if they resisted.It is a truism that "history is written by the victors"; and for the first time,this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint.
Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages,white Americans were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering.With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative,Dee Brown has focused attention on a national disgrace.Still controversial,but with many of its premises now accepted,'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee' has sold millions of copies worldwide and reissues still continue.
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