Summer Book Club: Dr. Keith Pluymers on Indigenous America

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It's summertime, and I hope you're reading some great books. Dr. Keith Pluymers joins me once again to talk about one that you all might enjoy, by the historian Pekka Hamalainen - Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to Tides of History, add free on Amazon Music.
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0:18.2	Hi everybody, from Wondery, welcome to another episode of Tides of History.
0:22.0	It is wonderful to have you all here and thanks so much for joining me.
0:26.3	It's summer time, and I hope that means that you all are getting a chance to do some
0:29.5	pleasure reading, preferably on a beach or at a cabin or next to a lake or wherever makes
0:33.6	you happy.
0:34.6	I'm doing some pleasure reading myself.
0:36.3	I recently finished a book entitled Indigenous Continent, the Epic Contest for North America,
0:41.5	by the Finnish historian Peca Himalainen.
0:43.7	I've talked about Himalainen's work a few times over the years, especially his wonderful
0:47.6	first book, The Comanche Empire, which really changed how I thought about power in the indigenous
0:52.4	peoples of the Americas.
0:54.8	To help us get a better grasp on Indigenous Continent, I'm joined by one of Tides of
0:58.6	History's returning champions, our most frequent guest over the past six years.
1:03.5	Dr. Keith Plymer's is one of my oldest and dearest friends in addition to being assistant
1:07.4	professor of history at Illinois State University, a former postdoctoral instructor at Caltech,
1:12.7	and the author of the book No Wood, No Kingdom, political ecology in the English Atlantic.
1:17.2	Keith, thanks so much for being here.
1:19.3	How the heck are you?
1:20.6	I'm doing great.
1:21.6	It's great to be back on Tides yet again.
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