{"id":107067,"date":"2018-03-05T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=107067"},"modified":"2018-03-02T10:18:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T10:18:22","slug":"the-apocalypse-of-settler-colonialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/03\/the-apocalypse-of-settler-colonialism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism<\/a>: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean <\/em><\/strong>by Gerald Horne<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cGerald Horne strengthens his stature as one of our leading global historians with this ambitious and engaging book. Taking settler colonialism seriously as central to the development of whiteness, he brilliantly situates changes in that tiny part of the 17th century world in what would become the U.S. within far wider worlds of increasingly racialized commodities and cruelties.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014David Roedgier<\/strong>, author, Class, Race, And Marxism<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cGerald Horne returns to the scene of the crimes that birthed the modern world. With cinematic flair, he takes us through what at first may appear to be familiar terrain\u2014slavery, dispossession, settler colonialism, the origins of capitalism\u2014but by extending his analytical lens to the entire globe, he delivers a fresh interpretation of the 17th century.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Robin D. G. Kelley<\/strong>, author, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cEssential reading for those who wish to comprehend how the past led to the violence of the present order, and how best to plot an alternate trajectory.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Joy James<\/strong>,\u00a0author, Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cA\u00a0must-read for all wishing to understand the historical roots of race oppression in the U.S. today.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Akinyele Umoja<\/strong>,\u00a0author, We Will Shoot Back<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cGerald Horne has done it again. Horne\u2019s erudite look at this seventeenth-century apocalypse brings together the hemispheric struggles of Black and Indigenous peoples for reparations. He shows that transnational solidarity is the greatest foe of settler colonial domination.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Dan\u00a0Berger<\/strong>, author,\u00a0\u00a0Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era<\/em><\/p>\n

Virtually no part of the modern United States can be understood without first understanding the slavery and dispossession that laid its foundation. To that end, historian Gerald Horne digs deeply into Europe\u2019s colonization of Africa and the New World, when, from Columbus\u2019s arrival until the Civil War, some thirteen million Africans and some five million Native Americans were forced to build and cultivate a society extolling \u201cliberty and justice for all.\u201d The seventeenth century was, according to Horne, an era when the roots of slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism became inextricably tangled into a complex history involving war and revolts in Europe, England\u2019s conquest of the Scots and Irish, the development of formidable new weaponry able to ensure Europe\u2019s colonial dominance, the rebel merchants of North America who created \u201cthese United States,\u201d and the hordes of Europeans whose newfound opportunities in this \u201cfree\u201d land amounted to \u201ccombat pay\u201d for their efforts as \u201cwhite\u201d settlers.<\/p>\n

Centering his book on the Eastern Seaboard of North America, the Caribbean, Africa, and what is now Great Britain,\u00a0Horne provides a deeply researched, harrowing account of the apocalyptic loss and misery that likely has no parallel in human history. This is an essential book that will not allow history to be told by the victors.<\/p>\n

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Gerald Horne<\/em> is John J. and Rebecca Moores Professor of African American History at the University of Houston. A prolific scholar, he has published more than three dozen books, including <\/em>Confronting Black Jacobins<\/em> and <\/em>Race to Revolution<\/em>, both by Monthly Review Press.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 monthlyreview.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Centering his book on the Eastern Seaboard of North America, the Caribbean, Africa, and what is now Great Britain, Horne provides a deeply researched, harrowing account of the apocalyptic loss and misery that likely has no parallel in human history. This is an essential book that will not allow history to be told by the victors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":107068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}