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American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World is a multidisciplinary book about the Indigenous peoples of the Americas and colonial history written by American scholar and historian David Stannard. This book generated a significant amount of critical commentary.
David Edward Stannard (born 1941) is an American historian and Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawaii.He is particularly known for his book American Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 1992), in which he argues that European colonization of the Americas after the arrival of Christopher Columbus resulted in some of the largest series of genocides in history.
Gregory D. Smithers, a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Aberdeen, has weighed in as well: "Ward Churchill refers to settler colonialism in North America as 'the American holocaust', and David Stannard similarly portrayed the European colonization of the Americas as an example of 'human incineration and carnage'." [28]
New conceptions require new terms. By "genocide" we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group. This new word, coined by the author to denote an old practice in its modern development, is made from the ancient Greek word genos (race, tribe) and the Latin cide (killing), thus corresponding in its formation to such words as ...
Holocaust Memorial Day is a moment to remember, to reflect on the present, and to contemplate the future of universal human rights.. However, the immediate focus is always, and rightly, on the ...
4. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl. Viktor E. Frankl’s memoir of his experiences in Nazi death camps—including Auschwitz—from 1942 to 1945 describes his attempts to hold on to ...
“A judge, an American judge, stood up and said ‘Yes, the Holocaust is not subject to dispute,’” Mermelstein told Smithsonian Magazine in 2018. “That moment stands out in my mind.
In response to David Stannard's figures about what he terms "the American Holocaust", [33] Rummel estimated that over the centuries of European colonization about 2 million to 15 million American indigenous people were victims of democide, excluding military battles and unintentional deaths in Rummel's definition. Rummel wrote that "[e]ven if ...