24 June 2008
One of the most striking insights to come from this historiography-altering work is that pre-Columbian cities in America were large, sophisticated things—and there were a lot of them.
6 February 2008 | Philly Skyline
But Silver’s careful epistemology of fear and politics in early Pennsylvania — he evokes the “anti-Indian sublime” with great precision — could have easily been written about America post-9/11, a claim he artfully restrains himself from making. His is the story of the way fear is invented, declared, assigned, and broadcast — and then used to justify war.