Description: Empire of the People : Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought, Hardcover by Dahl, Adam, ISBN 0700626069, ISBN-13 9780700626069, Brand New, Free shipping in the US American democracy owes its origins to the colonial settlement of North America by Europeans. Since the birth of the republic, observers such as Alexis de Tocqueville and J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur have emphasized how American democratic identity arose out of the distinct pattern by which English settlers colonized the New World. Empire of the People explores a new way of understanding this processand in doing so, offers a fundamental reinterpretation of modern democratic thought in the Americas. In Empire of the People, Adam Dahl examines the ideological development of American democratic thought in the context of settler colonialism, a distinct form of colonialism aimed at the appropriation of Native land rather than the exploitation of Native labor. By placing the development of American political thought and culture in the context of nineteenth-century settler expansion, his work reveals how practices and ideologies of Indigenous dispossession have laid the cultural and social foundations of American democracy, and in doing so profoundly shaped key concepts in modern democratic theory such as consent, social equality, popular sovereignty, and federalism. To uphold its legitimacy, Dahl also argues, settler political thought must disavow the origins of democracy in colonial dispossessionand in turn erase the political and historical presence of native peoples. Empire of the People traces this thread through the conceptual and theoretical architecture of American democratic politicsin the works of thinkers such as Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Alexis de Tocqueville, John OSullivan, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, and William Apess. In its focus on the disavowal of Native dispossession in democratic thought, th provides a new perspective on the problematic relationship between race and democracyand a different and more nuanced interpretation of the role of settler colonialism in the foundations of democratic culture and society.
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Book Title: Empire of the People : Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication Year: 2018
Topic: Human Geography, United States / 19th Century, History & Theory, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Political Ideologies / Democracy, United States / General
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 12.3 Oz
Author: Adam Dahl
Item Length: 9 in
Book Series: American Political Thought Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
