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SUMMARY:Unthinkable History: The American Settler State and the Political Economy of Plunder
DESCRIPTION:The American Republic was founded as a nation of settlers 
 struggling to colonize Native North America. This project began as an 
 extension of the original European colonial project in the western 
 hemisphere\, imagined as the discovery of a New World. Both the original 
 colonial scheme\, and the one undertaken by the United States\, imagined 
 North America as unsettled wilderness\, and imagined colonization as a 
 civilizing mission. Framed in this way the expansion of the republic beyond 
 the original thirteen states into the western interior could be imagined as 
 a benign conquest of nature\, when in fact it was an audacious colonial 
 project -- a grandiose scheme to steal a continent. However\, a theft this 
 bold would require more than merely a plan for colonial subjugation\, it 
 would require a colonial power willing to organize itself around a 
 political economy of plunder. It would require a totalizing colonial 
 project that would make an Indigenous history of North America 
 unthinkable.\n\nMichael Witgen is a professor in the Department of History 
 and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University\, 
 and the Director of the Lehman Center for American History. He is a citizen 
 of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe.  Witgen studies Indigenous 
 and Early American history with a particular focus on the Great Lakes. His 
 publications include “An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World 
 Shaped Early North America\, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania 
 Press\, 2012)\, and Seeing Red: Indigenous Land\, American Expansion\, and 
 the Political Economy of Plunder in North America\, which was a finalist 
 for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in history.
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