Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization

Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western CivilizationFrom one of the world's leading experts on Native American law and indigenous peoples' human rights comes an original and striking intellectual history of the tribe and Western civilization that sheds new light on how we understand ourselves and our contemporary society. Throughout the centuries, conquest, war, and unspeakable acts of violence and dispossession have all been justified by citing civilization's opposition to these differences

From one of the world's leading experts on Native American law and indigenous peoples' human rights comes an original and striking intellectual history of the tribe and Western civilization that sheds new light on how we understand ourselves and our contemporary society. Throughout the centuries, conquest, war, and unspeakable acts of violence and dispossession have all been justified by citing civilization's opposition to these differences represented by the tribe. Robert Williams, award winning author, legal scholar, and member of the Lumbee Indian Tribe, proposes a wide-ranging reexamination of the history of the Western world, told from the perspective of civilization's war on tribalism as a way of life. Williams shows us how what we thought we knew about the rise of Western civilization over the tribe is in dire need of reappraisal.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 08/21/2012
ISBN: 9780230338760
Pages: 265
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.20d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/28/2012 pg. 83
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2012
Choice 03/01/2013