Native Nations
A Millennium in North America: Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History
Published on 22. May 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
752 pages
978-1-80522-603-1 (ISBN)
Description
WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY
WINNER OF THE 2024 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE
Winner of the Bancroft Prize 2025
Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize 2025
For centuries, Europeans assumed that indigenous Americans lacked the sophistication to build cities and establish hierarchies. For over a millennium, prior to and after the arrival of white colonialists, however, native nations had been adapting to changing climates, founding and abandoning urban centres and forging complex, democratic societies.
In this magisterial new history of North America, Kathleen DuVal puts indigenous people back at the heart of the story. From the splendour of ancient cities like Cahokia and Moundsville to the careful diplomacy of native leaders in the face of colonial expansion, Native Nations reveals the diversity of indigenous civilisation and shows how a 1,000-year legacy still shapes America today, in struggles over sovereignty, climate and indigenous rights.
WINNER OF THE 2024 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE
Winner of the Bancroft Prize 2025
Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize 2025
For centuries, Europeans assumed that indigenous Americans lacked the sophistication to build cities and establish hierarchies. For over a millennium, prior to and after the arrival of white colonialists, however, native nations had been adapting to changing climates, founding and abandoning urban centres and forging complex, democratic societies.
In this magisterial new history of North America, Kathleen DuVal puts indigenous people back at the heart of the story. From the splendour of ancient cities like Cahokia and Moundsville to the careful diplomacy of native leaders in the face of colonial expansion, Native Nations reveals the diversity of indigenous civilisation and shows how a 1,000-year legacy still shapes America today, in struggles over sovereignty, climate and indigenous rights.
Reviews / Votes
A magisterial overview of a thousand years of Native American history * New York Review of Books * An essential American history ... DuVal fuses a millennium of Native American history into a thought-provoking, persuasive whole * Wall Street Journal * An indispensable guide to the epic history of Native North America -- Caroline Dodds Pennock, author * On Savage Shores * Both majestic in scope and intimate in tone ... No single volume can adequately depict the gamut of Indigenous cultures, but DuVal's comes close * Minneapolis Star-Tribune * Sweeping and important ... It is hard to imagine a more learned and humane guide to the last thousand years of this story than DuVal * American Scholar *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
76 b/w photos; 13 maps
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
516 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80522-603-1 (9781805226031)
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A Millennium in North America: Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History
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Person
Kathleen DuVal is a professor of History at the University of North Carolina. She is the author of Independence Lost and Give Me Liberty! She has written for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Her most recent book, Native Nations, won the 2024 Cundill History Prize.