Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization

by Robert A. Williams Jr.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230338763
• ISBN13: 9780230338760
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"