"The Touch of Civilization" : Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization / Steve Sabol.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sabol, Steven, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This work compares the process and practice of nineteenth-century American and Russian internal colonization, a form of contiguous, continental expansion, imperialism and colonialism that incorporated indigenous lands and peoples. It provides 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. In particular, it examines how and why perceptions of the Sioux and Kazakhs as ostensibly uncivilized peoples, and similarly held American and Russian perceptions of the Northern Plains and the Kazakh Steppe as "uninhabited" regions that ought to be settled, reinforced American and Russian government sedentarization policies and land allotment programs among the Sioux and Kazakhs. In addition, it compares the processes practiced by the two empires and the various forms of Sioux and Kazakh martial, political, social and culture resistance evident throughout the 19th century.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Sioux and the Kazakhs 33

Chapter 2 Pre-Nineteenth-Century Expansion 69

Chapter 3 Conquest and Martial Resistance 99

Chapter 4 Through the Colonial Looking-Glass 139

Chapter 5 Internal Colonization 171

Chapter 6 Assimilation and Identity 205.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2016 Front List Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100079

ISBN:

9781607325499

OCLC:

978350631

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access