american-holocaust

ACKNOWLEDGMENTSDuring the course of researching and writing this book I have benefitedfrom the generosity of a number of institutions and individuals. Some yearsago, while conducting research on a different project under the auspices ofa fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Ibegan reading and thinking about the historical fictions the First Worldroutinely imposes on indigenous and Third World peoples in the processof retrospectively justifying genocidal aggression against them. A few yearslater the American Council of Learned Societies provided me with fellowshipsupport for the initial phase of research that has led to this and otherpublications, some now in print, others still in preparation. The Universityof Hawai'i's Social Science Research Institute and its Director, Donald M.Topping, have unfailingly responded favorably to numerous requests forassistance from me, as has the beleaguered staff of the Thomas H. HamiltonLibrary. Also at the University of Hawai'i, the Center for Arts andHumanities has been most helpful.Emanuel J. Drechsel and Catherine Vandemoer pointed me in the rightdirection on several technical points, while in various important ways AnnetteMente and Nipa Rahim have helped assure that this book wouldindeed be published in 1992. Richard Drinnon and Peter T. Manicas carefullyread and pointedly commented on an early draft of the entire manuscript;the kindness of their prompt assistance and the keenness of theircriticisms were consistent with the example of their own vigorous and discerningscholarship.This is my third book with Oxford University Press. As in the past, theexperience has been rewarding. Sheldon Meyer was unreservedly supportiveand patient and fair in his counsel, as well as astute in his insight,