Ned Blackhawk The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History-重新发现美国

这本书对美国历史进行了具有里程碑意义的重新评价，并因此荣获2023年非小说类国家图书奖。书中内容跨越了从西班牙殖民时期到冷战的五个世纪，并将原住民置于美国现代国家演变的中心。

本书作者内德·布莱克霍克是一名历史学和美国研究教授，他提出美洲原住民的自治和传统在濒临灭绝的情况下仍能持久存在，并强调了不同部落在应对欧洲定居者的侵犯时所采用的复杂的外交策略和适应能力，以及是什么定义了内战后联邦政府处理原住民事务的方法。当叙述接近当下时，布莱克霍克将注意力集中在土著自决运动上，称赞“植根于文化自豪感和主权的印第安政治语法”的出现。尽管如此，他也指出，“语言的丧失、持续的生态破坏以及无数的殖民主义遗产持续存在，使得美洲原住民面临的挑战最为持久。”

书名：The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History《重新发现美国》

作者：Ned Blackhawk

简介：A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America
 
• A National Bestseller
 
“Eloquent and comprehensive. . . . In the book’s sweeping synthesis, standard flashpoints of U.S. history take on new meaning.”—Kathleen DuVal, Wall Street Journal
 
“In accounts of American history, Indigenous peoples are often treated as largely incidental—either obstacles to be overcome or part of a narrative separate from the arc of nation-building. Blackhawk . . . [shows] that Native communities have, instead, been inseparable from the American story all along.”— Washington Post Book World , “Books to Read in 2023”
 
The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.
 
Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non‑Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. In this transformative synthesis he shows that
 
• European colonization in the 1600s was never a predetermined success;
 
• Native nations helped shape England’s crisis of empire;
 
• the first shots of the American Revolution were prompted by Indian affairs in the interior;
 
• California Indians targeted by federally funded militias were among the first casualties of the Civil War;
 
• the Union victory forever recalibrated Native communities across the West;
 
• twentieth-century reservation activists refashioned American law and policy.  
 
Blackhawk’s retelling of U.S. history acknowledges the enduring power, agency, and survival of Indigenous peoples, yielding a truer account of the United States and revealing anew the varied meanings of America.