by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 6, 2013 | Alvin Josephy, Bernard Bailyn, daniel richter, Eurocentrism, Farthest Frontier, Pacific Northwest, Sidney Warren, The Barbarous Years
Alvin Josephy acknowledged the havoc wreaked on indigenous Americans by diseases, wars, and alcohol, but he said many times that the most pernicious impact on the Americans was Eurocentrism, the idea that the newcomers’ cultures and notions of religion and politics...