Facing West : The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building

by Drinnon, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780806129280
• ISBN10: 080612928X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

American expansion, says Richard Drinnon, is characterized by repression and racism. In his reinterpretation of "winning" the West, Drinnon links racism with colonialism and traces this interrelationship from the Pequot War in New England, through American expansion westward to the Pacific, and beyond to the Phillippines and Vietnam. He cites parrallels between the slaughter of bison on the Great Plains and the defoliation of Vietnam and notes similarities in the language of aggression used in the American West, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia.

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE 1997 EDITION	vii	(3)
PREFACE TO THE 1990 EDITION	xi	(10)
INTRODUCTION	xxi
PART ONE Maypoles and Pequots	3	(62)
I The Maypole of Merry Mount	3	(6)
II Thomas Morton	9	(12)
III John Endicott	21	(14)
IV The Pequot War	35	(11)
V The Legacy of the Pequot War	46	(19)
PART TWO Founding Fathers and Merciless Savages	65	(54)
VI Timothy Dwight of Greenfield Hill	65	(5)
VII John Adams	70	(8)
VIII Thomas Jefferson	78	(12)
IX Jefferson, II: Benevolence Betrayed	90	(9)
X Driving Indians into Jefferson's Stony Mountains	99	(20)
PART THREE Philanthropists and Indian-Haters	119	(10)
XI Westward Ho! With James Kirke Paulding	119	(12)
XII An American Romance in Color: William Gilmore Simms	131	(16)
XIII Nicks in the Woods: Robert Montgomery Bird	147	(18)
XIV Friend of the Indian: Colonel McKenney	165	(26)
XV Professional Westerner: Judge Hall	191	(28)
PART FOUR Civilizers and Conquerors	219	(136)
XVI The American Rhythm: Mary Austin	219	(13)
XVII The Manifest Destiny of John Fiske	232	(11)
XVIII Outcast of the Islands: Henry Adams	243	(12)
XIX The Open Door of John Hay	255	(24)
XX Insular Expert: Professor Worcester	279	(28)
XXI The Strenuous Life Abroad: "Marked Severities" in the Philippines	307	(26)
XXII The Strenuous Life at Home: To and Beyond the Louisiana Purchase Exposition	333	(22)
PART FIVE Children of Light	355	(114)
XXIII The Occident Express: From the Bay Colony to Indochina	355	(19)
XXIV The Ugly American	374	(6)
XXV The Secret Agent: Edward Geary Lansdale	380	(9)
XXVI Covert Savior of the Philippines	389	(13)
XXVII Closing the Circle of Empire: Indochina	402	(12)
XXVIII The Quiet American	414	(15)
XXIX The New Frontier	429	(14)
XXX The Problem of the West	443	(26)
NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY	469	(84)
INDEX	553