Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought
by
Adam Dahl
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
American democracy owes its origins to the colonial settlement of North America by Europeans. Since the birth of the republic, observers such as Alexis de Tocqueville and J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur have emphasized how American democratic identity arose out of the distinct pattern by which English...