la Historia Oculta de Conquista del Oeste

At the end of the 18th century, when the United States gained its independence from the United Kingdom, the conquest of the West began, a massive expansion that continued throughout the 19th century, driven by millions of European migrants seeking to settle in the new "Promised Land." Upon reaching the fertile valleys of the Mississippi and Ohio, the settlers encountered hundreds of enigmatic earthen structures (mounds), some as imposing as the Great Pyramid, whose origin they could not understand. Today we know that these structures were the work of the ancestors of the natives of those regions, erected over a period of 5,000 years. However, European settlers, influenced by their racist and Eurocentric prejudices, assumed that such constructions must have been built by a vanished white civilization that had inhabited those lands centuries earlier. Thus was born the myth of the mound builders, who were attributed with numerous and diverse origins: from Greeks, Phoenicians, or Mongols to the lost tribes of Israel, giants, or Atlanteans. In this book, historian Óscar Fábrega explores the history, myth, and reality behind these enigmatic constructions. Through exhaustive research, he debunks the racist and Eurocentric myths that attributed these complex monuments to foreign white civilizations, thus denying the ability of Native American peoples to have built them. In addition, he exposes the numerous archaeological frauds that were used to legitimize these delusional theories, some of which even gave rise to the birth of certain religions, such as Mormonism.

Pages: 264, Edition: 1, Paperback, Almuzara