A Decent Excuse for an Indian War (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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A Decent Excuse for an Indian War details the post-Civil War conflicts over how to allocate scarce military resources in the context of three converging streams: Indian "war," the exploding issue of race, and a developing industrialization leading to class conflict. Gregory F. Michno shows how Indian conflicts were manufactured in the West to justify troop removals from the South during Reconstruction. The army in the South helped Black people but hindered business exploitation; the army in the West helped white people and helped business exploitation. If the army simply remained in the South, fewer people would die, but business would make less profit. Capital, industry, and finance were in the saddle, and there was little doubt as to the final reckoning. In the meantime, Reconstruction generals often let bigoted attitudes drive their decisions to disregard legislative and executive direction, which played a large part in Reconstruction's ultimate failure.

Though earlier books have addressed Reconstruction and the Indians wars, rarely have they examined the military, political, and social factors that connected them and led to the near destruction of both Indians and freedmen.