Series: The Lamar Series in Western History

The untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and convict labourers to victims of modern trafficking. "A searing survey of '250 years of human bondage' in what is now the state of California. . . . Readers will be outraged." —Publishers Weekly...

The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Winner of the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Award for History and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Gruesomely thorough. . . . Others have described some of these campaigns, but never in such strong terms and with so much blame placed directly...

The Business of Killing Indians by William S. Kiser explores how colonial conquest was driven by state-sponsored, profit-driven campaigns to murder and mutilate Indian peoples in North America. From the mid-1600s through the late 1800s, states sponsored scalp bounties and volunteer campaigns to murder and mutilate thousands of Indians throughout North America. Since central governments in Amsterdam, Paris, London, Mexico...

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...

How a generation of pioneers and their historians knowingly hid the violent history of Indigenous dispossession in the Pacific Northwest The small, mostly forgotten wars of the 1850s in the American Pacific Northwest were part of a broader genocidal war—The War on Illahee—to seize Native land for Euro‑Americans. Illahee (a term for "homeland" in Chinook) was transformed into the states...