American Holocaust

The Conquest of the New World

By: David E. Stannard

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

For 400 years - from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the US Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s - the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people.

Indeed, as historian David E. Stannard argues in this stunning new book, the European and white American destruction of the native peoples of the Americas was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world.

Stannard reveals that wherever Europeans or white Americans went, the native people were caught between imported plagues and barbarous atrocities, typically resulting in the annihilation of 95 percent of their populations. What kind of people, he asks, do such horrendous things to others? His highly provocative answer: Christians. Digging deeply into ancient European and Christian attitudes toward sex, race, and war, he finds the cultural ground well prepared by the end of the Middle Ages for the centuries-long genocide campaign that Europeans and their descendants launched - and in places continue to wage - against the New World's original inhabitants.

©1992 David E. Stannard (P)2017 Tantor

Critic reviews

"Carefully researched, [and] well-written...A provocative account for public and academic libraries." ( Library Journal)

a must read .

one of the most important books anyone could ever read. let us not repeat the past.

Such an amazing book 

After listening to this book, it changed a lot in me in the way how I think and unfortunately that genocide continues against different races 

One of the most important books

This book should be read by every high school student to realize the evils of group think, racism, ancient ideologies, white washing of history and most importantly the banality of evil.

UNRELENTING AND UNFLINCHING

If Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was an indictment of the American government and settlers to the slaughter and capture of native N. American peoples, American Holocaust paints an even more sinister, far deadlier picture of brutal genocide perpetrated by wealth hungry Spain. This is not a text for the meek..describing all manners of cruel punishments, death and disease brought to the Americas by European civilized ancestors accounting for a toll that makes Nazi death camps seem quaint and forgiving.

The history we weren’t told.

This book takes what is glossed over in most history classes focusing on the almost total change in what we call the americas in four hundred years from what it had been for thousands of years. 80 to 100 million indigenous settled folks were reduced to a few million. Many of those left were put to slavery.

BONE CHILLING

The rose-colored record begins to be righted. When will these truths be shared on a wider scale, and replace the myths of American history taught to each schoolchild?

important book that had to be written

we are currently in denial about the issue of race in this country but when we are ready to confront the issue as we cannot move forward without doing that, information in this book will offer a sobering record of our history.

The most comprehensive true history of all the Americas

Amazing account of the true despicable history of the brutal colonization aka genocide of the 100 million native people who inhabited The Americas for thousands of years before the barbaric Europeans set foot and ‘discovered’ these sacred lands. I am appalled and embarrassed firstly at this true history and secondly at the fact that it was erased from history book and not taught in schools. I hope that this will all change soon and the true history will be taught in all schools so that the gruesome truth of how this continent was born will be known to all.

A must read for anyone seeking true history

This book is well researched, I learned so much truth behind the history of America & how many lies we believe.
It's an uncomfortable read, but the truth will set you free to make better decisions politically and hopefully change the way you think about the world and how we handle people of color. This is the must read for people of European descent and white. Also a must read for people of color. I'm am white, but now I know things that were hidden from me. I spent allot of time soul searching & cried many times. But I now have a intense desire to learn true history.

America needs to wake up and learn about this land and the Noble people who were her for thousands of years before explorers ever set foot on it's sacred soil.

Also not only is North American covered, but other lands where it's Native people's were destroyed.

Also the narrator is great. Highly recommend this book!!!

Required

If you breathe air you need to read this. Words like genocide and Holocaust are not typically associated with American history, this book tells a different story.