Settler colonialism in the twentieth century : projects, practices, legacies / edited by Caroline Elkins, Susan Pedersen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elkins, Caroline.

Pedersen, Susan, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonization--History--20th century.

Colonization.

Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Emigration and immigration.

Ethnic relations--History--20th century.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Postcolonial states and metropolitan societies still grapple today with the divisive and difficult legacies unleashed by settler colonialism.Whether they were settled for trade or geopolitical reasons, these settler communities had in common their shaping of landholding, laws, and race relations in colonies throughout the world. By looking at the detail of settlements in the twentieth century--from European colonial projects in Africa and expansionist efforts by the Japanese in Korea and Manchuria, to the Germans in Poland and the historical trajectories of Israel/Palestine and South A

Contents:

SETTLER COLONIALISM in the TWENTIETH CENTURY Projects, Practices, Legacies; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction Settler Colonialism: A Concept and Its Uses; Part I Creating Settler Colonies: Utopian Visions and Totalizing Worlds; 1 Malthusian Dreams, Colonial Imaginary: The Oriental Development Company and Japanese Emigration to Korea; 2 Settler Citizenship in the Jewish Colonization of Palestine; 3 Between Empire and Nation: Settler Colonialism in Manchukuo; 4 Settling against the Tide: The Layered Contradictions of Twentieth-Century in Mozambique

5 Management and Manipulation: Nazi Settlement Planners and Ethnic German Settlers in Occupied Poland6 Settler Colonialism at the Bar of the League of Nations; Part II Settler Colonialism in Action: Institutions and Practices; 7 Mission Législatrice: Extraterritoriality and Japan's Legal Mission to Korea in the Early Twentieth Century; 8 Brokers of Empire: Japanese and Korean Business Elites in Colonial Korea; 9 Settler Colonization in the Middle East and North Africa: Its Economic Rationale; 10 Racial Violence and the Origins of Segregation in South Africa

11 Race, Citizenship, and Governance: Settler Tyranny and the End of EmpirePart III Settler Communities after Decolonization: Myths, Memories, Strategies; 12 The "Southern" World of the Pieds Noirs: References to and Representations of Europeans in Colonial Algeria; 13 Imperial Remnants: The Repatriates in Postwar Japan; 14 Unsettling the Metropole: Race and Settler Reincorporation in Postcolonial Portugal; 15 "Sleep with a Southwester": Monuments and Settler Identity in Namibia; Contributors; Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-07746-4

1-283-84680-2

1-136-07738-3

0-203-62104-2

9780203621042

OCLC:

821174557