Includes bibliographical references pages (275-286) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Millennialism, nativism, and genocide -- Creation through extermination : native efforts to eliminate the Hispanic presence in the Americas -- Nativism, caste wars, and the exterminatory impulse -- Rebellion and relative deprivation -- Leadership and division -- Atrocity as metaphor : the symbolic language of rebellion -- Cultural assimilation in the native world -- Conclusion.
Note
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Summary
A provocative account of native attacks on colonial occupiers.