76 - Dr. Ben Madley, Author of An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873

January 18, 2023 00:55:17
76 - Dr. Ben Madley, Author of An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
History of California Podcast
76 - Dr. Ben Madley, Author of An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873

Jan 18 2023 | 00:55:17

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Show Notes

Today, we have Dr. Ben Madley on the show. Benjamin Madley is a historian of Native America, the United States, and colonialism in world history. Born in Redding, California, he spent much of his childhood in Karuk Country near the Oregon border where he became interested in relations between colonizers and Indigenous people. Educated at Yale and Oxford, he writes about Native Americans as well as colonialism in Africa, Australia, and Europe, often applying a transnational and comparative approach. Yale University Press published his first book, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873. Madley is currently co-editing The Cambridge World History of Genocide, Volume 2: Genocide in the Indigenous, Early Modern, and Imperial Worlds, 1535-1914(forthcoming, 2023), with historians Ned Blackhawk, Ben Kiernan, and Rebe Taylor. His current research explores Native American migration and labor in the making of the United States. Please enjoy our conversation.

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