From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie: The Alliance for Sovereignty between American Indians and Central Europeans in the Late Cold War - Couverture souple

Tóth, György Ferenc

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1438461224 ISBN 13 : 9781438461229

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2017

Synopsis

A historical analysis of the transatlantic relations of the American Indian radical sovereignty movement of the late Cold War.

From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie examines the history of the transatlantic alliance between American Indian sovereignty activists and Central European solidarity groups, and their entry into the United Nations in the 1970s and 1980s. In the late Cold War, Native American activists engaged in transnational diplomacy for nation building by putting outside pressure on the US government for a more progressive Indian policy that reached for the full decolonization of Native American communities into independence. By using extensive multinational archival research complemented by interviews, György Ferenc Tóth investigates how older transatlantic images of American Indians influenced the alliance between Native activists and Central European groups, how this coalition developed and functioned, and how the US government and the regimes of the Eastern Bloc responded to this transatlantic alliance. This book not only places the American Indian radical sovereignty movement in an international context, but also recasts it as a transnational struggle, thus connecting domestic US social and political history to the history of Cold War transatlantic relations and global movements.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

György Ferenc Tóth is Lecturer of US History and Transatlantic Relations at the University of Stirling in Scotland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438461224
• ISBN 13: 9781438461229
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 332
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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