Description
The similarities between the 2 frontier encounters have long been noted, but James O. Gump is the first to scrutinize them in a comparative context. “This study issues a challenge to American exceptionalism,” he writes. Viewing both episodes as a part of a global pattern of intensified conflict within the latter 1800s on account of Western domination over a vast element of the globe, he persuasively traces the comparisons of their origins and aftermath.