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9781668025451

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Cahokia Jazz

Visit an alternate America where European colonization never took place in this intricately plotted police procedural from Francis Spufford.

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Review of ‘Cahokia Jazz’

Suppose, just for a moment, that the European colonizers of America hadn’t brought a whole host of diseases that wiped out a majority of the Indigenous population, and that Natives had thrived, rather than been decimated. What would Prohibition-era America have looked like, politically, economically and culturally?

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