The Conquest Of A Continent Or The Expansion Of Races In America
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The Conquest of a Continent; or, The Expansion of Races in America by Madison Grant Pdf
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"The Conquest of a Continent" was the first attempt to give an authentic racial history of the USA, based on the scientific interpretation of race as distinguished from language and from geographic distribution. The Cradle of Mankind The Nordic Conquest of Europe The Nordic Settlement of America The Puritans in New England The Gateways to the West from New England and Virginia Virginia and Her Neighbors The Old Northwest Territory The Mountaineers Conquer the Southwest From the Mississippi to the Oregon The Spoils of the Mexican War The Alien Invasion The Transformation of America Checking the Alien Invasion The Legacy of Slavery Our Neighbors on the North Our Neighbors on the South The Nordic Outlook
Madison Grant traces the ethnography of the North American continent. Grant details the history of various ethnic groups on the continent, from Colonial times to the mid 20th century. Central is the dominant role that the Nordic race (particularly Anglo-Saxon and Ulster-Scots) played in the conquest and founding of the United States.Madison Grant, author of The Conquest of a Continent: or The Expansion of Races in America (1933), and, previously, The Passing of the Great Race (1916) was much discussed and reviewed in his own time, and into the 21st century by both detractors and admirers, whether in qualified or very strident terms. This prominent naturalist, zoologist, and benefactor still casts a shadow over many aspects of the human condition and the issues of "race," national identity, immigration, and the potential role of scientific methods in improving racial stock: points of contention that have never faded. He is a progressive and a man of science; an elitist; and a conservationist (or "environmentalist" in contemporary parlance). In this, what his colleague, the paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn, called in the introduction, "the first racial history of America," Grant provides a consistent theme--Nordicism and the need to preserve the Nordic racial type in America--but can be contradictory and inconsistent in finding the means to achieve this ultimate conservationist agenda.
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A leading conservationist in the United States, Madison Grant’s preoccupation with biodiversity was not limited to wildlife, but also extended to humans, particularly where that biodiversity intersected with the wider sweep of history, its meaning and interpretation, and government policy. Grant provides here a racial and ethnic history of the European settlement of North America, spanning from the ancient nations of Europe to the United States of his day. His thesis was that the United States was settled mostly by Northwestern Europeans, particularly English and Ulster Scots. To his mind, this relative homogeneity, plus the generally high quality of these enterprising settlers, conferred upon the new nation its prosperity, cohesion, stability, and defining cultural characteristics. Grant was concerned that then recent waves of immigration from poorer parts of Europe would lead to social instability, division, economic decline, and a growing underclass. He also thought that the failure to deal with problems left by slavery stored trouble for the future. Grant’s represents today an unfashionable opinion, and his framework of analysis—not to mention his Nordicist bias—makes him seem somewhat outdated. Yet, he remains historically important: in his day, Grant enjoyed support with much of the old WASP establishment, including academics, politicians, and scientists who were leaders in their field. What is more, nearly half a century since the restrictive immigration legislation for which he campaigned was reversed, the old arguments have not gone away: as in Europe, they are being updated and revisited in the United States, which is now more socially unstable, more divided, less prosperous, and with a much greater underclass than before. This, despite strenuous efforts by Grant’s opponents over the past century. Worse still, the founding stock of the United States is now in steep decline, just as Grant predicted it would without targeted policies; this, and the implications of that decline, makes him even more relevant today than he was in his lifetime. Following the Anti-Defamation League’s efforts to suppress the book in 1933, there has not been a professional edition in print for the last eighty years. This edition has been meticulously annotated, making it a resource for casual readers and scholars alike. It also comes with all the original maps, an expanded index, a foreword by Richard Spencer of the National Policy Institute, and cover artwork by Alex Kurtagic.
The Conquest of a Continent, Or The Expansion of Races in America (Illustrated Edition) by Madison Grant Pdf
Grant (1865-1937) was an American lawyer, writer, and zoologist known primarily for his work as a eugenicist/racist and as a conservationist, being one of the leading thinkers and activists of the Progressive Era. He was responsible for one of the most notorious works of scientific racism, The Passing of the Great Race (1916), and played an active role in crafting strong immigration restriction and anti-miscegenation laws in the US. As a conservationist, he is credited with saving many species of animals, founding numerous environmental and philanthropic organizations and developing much of the discipline of wildlife management. This work first published in 1933 is illustrated with 14 maps and includes an introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935), the paleontologist and geologist who was president of the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years, of which Grant was a trustee.
2018 Reprint of 1933 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Illustrated with Maps. A leading conservationist in the United States, Madison Grant's preoccupation with biodiversity was not limited to wildlife, but also extended to humans, particularly where that biodiversity intersected with the wider sweep of history, its meaning and interpretation, and government policy. Grant provides here a racial and ethnic history of the European settlement of North America, spanning from the ancient nations of Europe to the United States of his day. His thesis was that the United States was settled mostly by Northwestern Europeans, particularly English and Ulster Scots. To his mind, this relative homogeneity, plus the generally high quality of these enterprising settlers, conferred upon the new nation its prosperity, cohesion, stability, and defining cultural characteristics. Grant was concerned that then recent waves of immigration from poorer parts of Europe would lead to social instability, division, economic decline, and a growing underclass. He also thought that the failure to deal with problems left by slavery stored trouble for the future. Grant's represents today an unfashionable opinion, and his framework of analysis--not to mention his Nordic bias--makes him seem biased and outdated. Yet, he remains historically important. The old arguments have not gone away: as in Europe, they are being updated and revisited in the United States, which is now more socially unstable and more divided than previously thought possible.
By using documented historical fact, Madison Grant proved that the colonial stock who opened up America for settlement were primarily of Northwestern European stock, with particular emphasis on its English and Ulster Scots roots. He goes on to show how America reached its greatest degree of racial homogeneity in 1860 and that later immigration from all parts of the world was undermining this founding stock. Grant's predictions of what would happen if unlimited immigration was allowed once again, and if the existing racial problems left by slavery and illegal Mexican immigration were not addressed, make sobering reading. Contains all the original maps and two new appendices which details how the Anti-Defamation League sought to suppress this book; and a 2006 study which showed that the number of Americans born with blue eyes had dropped from 1 in 2 in 1900 to less than 1 in 6 in 2000-proof of the accuracy of Grant's predictions that unlimited immigration would lead to the de-Nordicization of America. Contents Introduction, by Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn I. Foreword II. The Cradle of Mankind III. The Nordic Conquest of Europe IV. The Nordic Settlement of America V. The Puritans in New England VI. The Gateways to the West from New England and Virginia VII. Virginia and Her Neighbors VIII. The Old Northwest Territory IX. The Mountaineers Conquer the Southwest X. From the Mississippi to the Oregon XI. The Spoils of the Mexican War XII. The Alien Invasion XIII. The Transformation of America XIV. Checking the Alien Invasion XV. The Legacy of Slavery XVI. Our Neighbors on the North XVII. Our Neighbors on the South XVIII. The Nordic Outlook Bibliography Appendix 1: "We Are Interested in Stifling the Sales of this Book" Appendix 2: The Decline of Blue Eyes in America Index MAPS: Ireland; Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland; Ulster Scot and New England Origins; Puritan Emigration from England, 1620-1640; Territorial Growth of the United States; The Thirteen Colonies; Roman Catholics, 1930; Congregational Churches; Negro Population, 1930; Negro Population: Increase and Decrease, 1920-1930; Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland; Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies; Distribution of Mexicans by States; South America.
The Conquest of the American Continent by Madison Grant Pdf
The Conquest of the American Continent; or, The Expansion of Races in America is a eugenicist work by an American lawyer and biologist Madison Grant. The book deals with the settlement of American continent throughout the centuries, and with migrations of different tribes and racial groups to and from America.
The Conquest of a Continent: Expansion of Races in America by Madison Grant Pdf
This eBook edition has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "The Conquest of a Continent" was the first attempt to give an authentic racial history of the USA, based on the scientific interpretation of race as distinguished from language and from geographic distribution. The Cradle of Mankind The Nordic Conquest of Europe The Nordic Settlement of America The Puritans in New England The Gateways to the West from New England and Virginia Virginia and Her Neighbors The Old Northwest Territory The Mountaineers Conquer the Southwest From the Mississippi to the Oregon The Spoils of the Mexican War The Alien Invasion The Transformation of America Checking the Alien Invasion The Legacy of Slavery Our Neighbors on the North Our Neighbors on the South The Nordic Outlook
The passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European history by Madison Grant Pdf
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American myths about national character tend to overshadow the historical realities. Reginald Horsman’s book is the first study to examine the origins of racialism in America and to show that the belief in white American superiority was firmly ensconced in the nation’s ideology by 1850. The author deftly chronicles the beginnings and growth of an ideology stressing race, basic stock, and attributes in the blood. He traces how this ideology shifted from the more benign views of the Founding Fathers, which embraced ideas of progress and the spread of republican institutions for all. He finds linkages between the new, racialist ideology in America and the rising European ideas of Anglo-Saxon, Teutonic, and scientific ideologies of the early nineteenth century. Most importantly, however, Horsman demonstrates that it was the merging of the Anglo-Saxon rhetoric with the experience of Americans conquering a continent that created a racialist philosophy. Two generations before the “new” immigrants began arriving in the late nineteenth century, Americans, in contact with blacks, Indians, and Mexicans, became vociferous racialists. In sum, even before the Civil War, Americans had decided that peoples of large parts of this continent were incapable of creating or sharing in efficient, prosperous, democratic governments, and that American Anglo-Saxons could achieve unprecedented prosperity and power by the outward thrust of their racialism and commercial penetration of other lands. The comparatively benevolent view of the Founders of the Republic had turned into the quite malevolent ideology that other peoples could not be “regenerated” through the spread of free institutions.
