Zinn Vs Schweikart Analysis

1/12/12
Zinn Vs. Schweikart

Turmoil that existed in the Americas a.k.a The New World has shaped and influenced much of the development of the world, as well as the conquers of the land or the tyrants some called them. Also has changed the history of the down trodden or the conquered. From the American colonies and the revolution. Howard Zinn and Larry Schweikart present different points of views of these subjects, but also they present similar views in the same respect. Columbus a hero or a villain?, This question has plagued historians thru out the ages and its based on this question that Zinn and Schweikart answer in different ways. Howard Zinn in the first chapter of his book “A People's History of the United States” talks a bout
But saying that lends some sort of pity towards Columbus which Zinn doesn’t and considers him a genocidist for what he did to the Arawak. Now on the other side of the tracks you have Larry Schweikart who wrote “A Patriot's History of The United States”, compared to Zinn's almost 20 pages on Columbus wrote about five paragraphs on Columbus calming him as a hero and a esteemed admiral of the sea. Now the more credible argument in the case of Columbus’s villainy or heroism, is Zinn his take saying that Columbus’s was a murderer and killer is much moire credible than that of Schweikart's saying he is a hero. This is because of the fact that in Schweikart's book he leaves out that fact that reports of post-Colombian expeditions say that there were no original or descendants of original Arawak living on the island where Columbus landed. Meaning that his genocide of not only the lives but the culture of the Arawak left no way for their traditions or their names to be carried on after he was done using them to achieve his own means. So in conclusion not only Zinn's better
But also it led to prosperity also the forming of a new country and a new power in the world. Zinn in his “A People's History of The United States” talks about how when the Europeans found the land they thought to be deserted and ready for the taking was already taken and full of life. The life hes talking about are the Indians who have lived in this new world for centuries and it in fact was their home. But no matter the Europeans took the land killed the Indians without so much as a thought of what the progress they were making cost. The price that the Indians had to pay was a deadly price,the price of their life the price of their freedom and the biggest of all was the changing of their way of life in a drastic and negative matter. The French the English the Dutch and the Spaniards all took colonies in the new world for their own and in doing so destroyed the lives of millions of Indians who in fact came first and had more of a right to the land than the Europeans themselves did. There was also a by-product of colonialism, Zinn says and that’s the product of slavery, slavery of the Indians but more so of the Africans . What Zinn is really talking about is the slave trade which came about because of colonialism and the Lack of “man power” in the new world to harvest new found cash crops such as tobacco and indigo. So