David Edward Stannard (born 1941) is an American historian and Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawaii . He is particularly known for his book American Holocaust ( Oxford University Press , 1992), in which he argues that European colonization of the Americas after the arrival of Christopher Columbus resulted in some of the largest series of genocides in history .
29-656: Stannard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: David Stannard , American historian Eliot Stannard (1888-1944), British screenwriter George J. Stannard , Union general in the American Civil War Ian Stannard , English cyclist James Stannard , Australian former rugby union footballer Lynn Stannard , Manitoba judge Richard Stannard (songwriter) , English songwriter and record producer Richard Stannard (triathlete) , British triathlete Richard Been Stannard , English recipient of
58-717: A Master of Philosophy in American Studies (1973), and a Ph.D. in American Studies in 1975. He has taught at Yale University, Stanford University , the University of Colorado , and the University of Hawaii . He has lectured throughout the United States, in Europe, and in Asia. He is currently a writer and professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Hawaii , where he
87-459: A Regents Candidate Advisory Council, appointed by the governor, and confirmed by the state legislature. The board oversees all aspects of governance for the university system, including its internal structure and management. The board also appoints, evaluates, and if necessary removes the president of the University of Hawaiʻi. The university's governing board includes a current student appointed by
116-740: A biopsy of the racist and imperial arrogance that are an integral, though seldom acknowledged, motif of the history of America." Stannard was the recipient of Guggenheim , Rockefeller , American Council of Learned Societies and other research fellowships and awards. University of Hawaii The University of Hawaiʻi System is a public college and university system in Hawaiʻi . The system confers associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees through three universities, seven community colleges, an employment training center, three university centers, four education centers, and various other research facilities distributed across six islands throughout
145-438: A comprehensive piece of scholarship. American Holocaust will provide a desirable textbook for students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Finally, scholars of Indian-white relations from various disciplines will find the book a valuable resource in terms of method and content." Alfred Crosby of The Boston Sunday Globe wrote: An important work that will have [Stannard] canonized by some and pilloried by others by
174-419: A storm. In my desire to stress what is praiseworthy, I have used up my assigned space, but I must at least mention Stannard's silly season efforts to blame Europeans' sadism on the sexual repression of Christianity... Stannard was the longtime partner of Hawaiian nationalist, University of Hawaii professor emerita, and author Haunani-Kay Trask . Stannard's published books include: The Puritan Way of Death
203-569: Is a current U.S. senator. She graduated from the University of Hawaii with a BA in psychology. She is the first elected female senator from Hawaii, the first Asian-American woman elected to the Senate, the first U.S. senator born in Japan, and the nation's first Buddhist senator. Alice Augusta Ball was not only the first woman to graduate from the College of Hawaiʻi (now the University of Hawaiʻi) in 1915, but
232-441: Is a substantial addition to the library of injustice toward American Natives....From an ethical standpoint, works such as Stannard's are necessary to counterbalance the ethnocentricities of past historical works on Natives. From an academic standpoint, the book is an interdisciplinary monument. The author has taken an incredible amount of data and applied contemporary anthropological, demographic, and historical techniques to synthesize
261-562: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles David Stannard He was born to Florence E. Harwood Stannard and David L. Stannard, a businessman. He served in the armed forces and worked in the publishing industry between 1959 and 1968. In 1966, he married Valerie M. Nice. The couple, subsequently divorced, had two sons, one of whom died in 2015. After returning to college in 1968, Stannard graduated magna cum laude from San Francisco State University in 1971. He then went to Yale and obtained an M.A. degree in history (1972),
290-640: Is the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo on the "Big Island" of Hawaiʻi , with over 3,000 students. The University of Hawaiʻi – West Oʻahu in Kapolei primarily serves students who reside in Honolulu's western and central suburban communities. The University of Hawaiʻi Community College System comprises four community colleges island campuses on O'ahu and one each on Maui , Kauaʻi , and Hawaii . The colleges were created to improve accessibility of courses to more Hawaiʻi residents and provide an affordable means of easing
319-413: The surname Stannard . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stannard&oldid=1232899490 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
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#1732851508941348-476: The Hawaiʻi Territorial Legislature and was renamed the University of Hawaiʻi. In 1965, the state legislature created a system of community colleges and placed it within the university. The university was renamed the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa to distinguish it from other campuses in the University of Hawaiʻi System in 1972. The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is the flagship institution of
377-562: The Holocaust Unique? , edited by Alan S. Rosenbaum (Westview Press, 1996). Before the Horror has focused on Hawaii and the Pacific. Having dramatically and upwardly revised the estimated population of Hawaii at the time of Western contact from about 200,000 to between 800,000 and 1,000,000—a change that forced major rethinking about the entirety of Hawaii's history—that work is now being used as
406-603: The State of Hawai'i's technical and community colleges under one system within the former University of Hawaiʻi. The former University of Hawai'i was created by the Territory of Hawaiʻi in 1907 as a land-grant college of agriculture and mechanical arts and held its first classes in 1907. In 1912 it moved to its present location in Mānoa Valley and was renamed the College of Hawaii. In 1919 the College of Hawaiʻi obtained university status by
435-536: The University of Hawaiʻi system. It was founded as a land-grant college under the terms of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890 . Programs include Hawaiian / Pacific Studies , Astronomy , East Asian Languages and Literature, Asian Studies , Comparative Philosophy , Marine Science , Second Language Studies, along with Botany , Engineering , Ethnomusicology , Geophysics , Law , Business , Linguistics , Mathematics , and Medicine . The second-largest institution
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493-455: The brink of extinction. How convincing are his evidence and reasoning? Very, I am unhappy to say....Nothing can be done to improve the past, but we can at least face it. David Stannard insists that we do." Francis Jennings of Early American Literature wrote in his review of the book: I must note how powerfully this book's prose carries a reader forward. Although Stannard disclaims intent for propaganda, he achieves it massively. He writes up
522-568: The destruction of the aboriginal peoples of the Americas, in a "string of genocide campaigns" by Europeans and their descendants, was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. Although praised by Howard Zinn , Vine Deloria , Dee Brown and others, Stannard's argument generated a great deal of critical commentary. He responded to much of it in a lengthy essay entitled "Uniqueness as Denial: The Politics of Genocide Scholarship", published in Is
551-528: The end of the Quincentennial Year. It is the product of massive reading in the important sources, years of pondering, and fury at what Europe hath wrought in America....His convincing claim is that what happened was the worst demographic disaster in the history of our species, that Old World diseases and Old World brutality reduced the number of Indians enormously and drove away many Native American peoples over
580-544: The foundation for re-examinations of indigenous population histories throughout the Pacific. In 2005 Stannard's book Honor Killing used an infamous rape and murder case of the 1930s—one that involved Clarence Darrow arguing his final spectacular defense—to open up a detailed social and political examination of the Hawaiian Islands under US colonial rule. In its review The New York Review of Books described Honor Killing as "finely written and meticulously researched...
609-616: The governor of Hawaiʻi to serve a two-year term as a full voting regent. The practice of appointing a student to the board was approved by the Hawaiʻi State Legislature in 1997. Alumni of the University of Hawaiʻi system include many notable persons in various walks of life. Senator Daniel Inouye and Tammy Duckworth both are veterans of the US military who were injured in the line of duty then later entered government service. Bette Midler and Georgia Engel are successful entertainers on
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#1732851508941638-519: The lives of countless tens of millions of people." While acknowledging that the majority of the indigenous peoples fell victim to the ravages of European disease, he estimates that almost 100 million died in what he calls the American Holocaust . In response to Stannard's figures, political scientist Rudolph Rummel has estimated that over the centuries of European colonization about 2 million to 15 million American indigenous people were
667-451: The national stage. Composer Hsiung-Zee Wong also attended the University of Hawai'i. President Barack Obama 's parents, Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham , and half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng , also earned degrees from the Mānoa campus, where his parents met in a Russian language class. His mother earned three degrees from the University of Hawaiʻi including a PhD in anthropology. Mazie Hirono
696-464: The state of Hawaii in the United States. All schools of the University of Hawaiʻi System are accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges . The University of Hawaiʻi System's main administrative offices are located on the property of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in the city of Honolulu . The present-day University of Hawai'i System was created in 1965 which combined
725-489: The transition from secondary school / high school to college for many students. University of Hawaiʻi education centers are located in more remote areas of the State and its several islands, supporting rural communities via distance education. In accordance with Article X, Section 6 of the Constitution of Hawaii , the University of Hawaiʻi is governed by a Board of Regents, composed of 15 unpaid members who are nominated by
754-637: The victims of what he calls democide , which excludes military battles and unintentional deaths in Rummel's definition. "Even if these figures are remotely true," writes Rummel, "then this still make this subjugation of the Americas one of the bloodier, centuries long, democides in world history." According to Guenter Lewy , Stannard's perspective has been joined by noted scholars and activists including Kirkpatrick Sale , Ben Kiernan , Lenore A. Stiffarm, Phil Lane Jr. , and Ward Churchill . Samuel R. Cook of The American Indian Quarterly wrote: American Holocaust
783-522: Was also the first African American research chemist and instructor in the college's chemistry department. In addition, she was the first person to successfully develop a water-soluble form of chaulmoogra oil that was used for decades to relieve the symptoms of Hansen's disease ( leprosy ). The University of Hawaiʻi system has had many faculty members of note. Many were visiting faculty or came after they won major awards like Nobel Laureate Georg von Békésy . Ryuzo Yanagimachi , principal investigator of
812-482: Was awarded the Regents' Medal for Excellence in teaching. He has contributed dozens of articles to scholarly journals in a variety of fields. Stannard's research on the indigenous peoples of North and South America (including Hawaii ) has produced the conclusion that Native Americans had undergone the "worst human holocaust the world had ever witnessed, roaring across two continents non-stop for four centuries and consuming
841-544: Was referred to in The New York Review of Books as one of the handful of books—and the only one by an American—that together constituted "the most original and important historical advance of the 1970s." Shrinking History , published in 1980, was chosen by Psychology Today as one of the 'best books of the year'. His other writings have been translated into German , French , Spanish , Italian , Turkish , and Japanese . In American Holocaust , he argues that
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