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Summer Book Club: Dr. Keith Pluymers on Indigenous America

Tides of History

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Himalayanan: A History of Trade

Trading posts in the standard telling of the story are often a beachhead for further colonization or empire building. Himalayanan does throughout the book show that trading posts got built in accordance with indigenous power dynamics. The reality on the ground was much more tilted in favor of the people who actually lived there.

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