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"The Touch of Civilization" Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization / Steve Sabol.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sabol, Steven, author.
- , Knowledge Unlatched, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kazakhs--History.
- Kazakhs.
- Dakota Indians--History.
- Dakota Indians.
- Collective memory--United States.
- Collective memory.
- Collective memory--Russia.
- Imperialism--History.
- Imperialism.
- Comparative civilization.
- Russia--Territorial expansion.
- Russia.
- United States--Territorial expansion.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Steven Sabol is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the former editor of Nationalities Papers and First World War Studies, a recipient of the Arrell M. Gibson Award, and author of Russian Colonization and the Genesis of Kazak National Consciousness.
- Summary:
- "A critical, comparative examination of internal colonization exercised by the United States and Russia and experienced by two indigenous populations, the Sioux and the Kazakhs, to negate the tendency to isolate the study of American history, to overemphasize the uniqueness of the American development and to exalt national pride"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Sioux and the Kazakhs
- Pre-nineteenth-century expansion
- Conquest and martial resistance
- Through the colonial looking-glass
- Internal colonization
- Assimilation and identity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781607327257
- 1607327252
- 9781607326984
- 1607326981
- 9781607325505
- 1607325500
- OCLC:
- 978350012
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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