Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization

From one of the worlds leading experts on Native American law and indigenous peoples human rights comes an original and striking intellectual history of the tribe and Western civilization that sheds new light on how we understand ourselves and our contemporary society. Throughout the centuries conquest war and unspeakable acts of violence and dispossession have all been justified by citing civilizations opposition to these differences represented by the tribe. Robert Williams award winning author legal scholar and member of the Lumbee Indian Tribe proposes a wide-ranging reexamination of the history of the Western world told from the perspective of civilizations war on tribalism as a way of life. Williams shows us how what we thought we knew about the rise of Western civilization over the tribe is in dire need of reappraisal.