Pekka Hämäläinen

There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus "discovers" a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches. The European empires rush over, eager to stake out as much of this astonishing "New World" as possible. Though Indigenous peoples fight back, they cannot stop the onslaught. White imperialists are destined to rule the...

From the author of Lakota America, an award-winning history of the rise and decline of the vast and imposing Comanche empire. “Cutting-edge revisionist western history.”—Larry McMurtry, New York Review of Books “A landmark study that will make readers see the history of southwestern America in an entirely new way.”—David J. Weber, author of Bárbaros In the eighteenth and early nineteenth...