What could be more exciting than a book upending everything you thought you knew? Better yet if that book is peppered with interesting facts and written in a pacey, intriguing style by one of the finest minds of his generation: Pekka Hämäläinen, Rhodes professor of American history at the University of Oxford.
Hämäläinen's gift to the popular history book puts you right, explaining that, in fact, there was only indigenous North America “slowly and unevenly becoming colonial”. If you assumed that colonialism defined the continent and the experiences of everyone living on it, this book shows that, actually, North America was dominated by Indigenous peoples well into the 19th century.
