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Manifest Destiny

American Expansion and the Political Economy of Plunder

March 9, 2022 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

Seeing RedIn this episode, Michael Witgen, a Professor of History and a Professor at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University and a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, joins us to investigate the story of the Anishinaabeg and Anishinaabewaki, the homelands of the Anishinaabeg people, with details from his book, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America (Omohundro Institute & Univ. of No. Carolina Press, 2022). [Read more…] about American Expansion and the Political Economy of Plunder

Filed Under: Books, History, Western NY Tagged With: Colonialism, Economic History, Financial History, Great Lakes, Imperialism, Indigenous History, Manifest Destiny, Podcasts

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