Empire, colony, genocide : conquest, occupation, and subaltern resistance in world history / edited by A. Dirk Moses.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moses, A. Dirk, editor.

Series:

War and genocide ; v. 12.

Studies on war and genocide ; volume 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide--History.

Genocide.

Crimes against humanity--History.

Crimes against humanity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (492 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1944, Raphael Lemkin coined the term ""genocide"" to describe a foreign occupation that destroyed or permanently crippled a subject population. In this tradition, Empire, Colony, Genocide embeds genocide in the epochal geopolitical transformations of the past 500 years: the European colonization of the globe, the rise and fall of the continental land empires, violent decolonization, and the formation of nation states. It thereby challenges the customary focus on twentieth-century mass crimes and shows that genocide and ""ethnic cleansing"" have been intrinsic to imperial expansion. The complexity of the colonial encounter is reflected in the contrast between the insurgent identities and genocidal strategies that subaltern peoples sometimes developed to expel the occupiers, and those local elites and creole groups that the occupiers sought to co-opt. Presenting case studies on the Americas, Australia, Africa, Asia, the Ottoman Empire, Imperial Russia, and the Nazi "Third Reich," leading authorities examine the colonial dimension of the genocide concept as well as the imperial systems and discourses that enabled conquest. Empire, Colony, Genocide is a world history of genocide that highlights what Lemkin called "the role of the human group and its tribulations."

Contents:

Empire, colony, genocide: keywords and the philosophy of history / A. Dirk Moses

Anticolonialism in western political thought: the colonial origins of the concept of genocide / Andrew Fitzmaurice

Are settler-colonies inherently genocidal? Re-reading Lemkin / John Docker

Structure and event: settler colonialism, time, and the question of genocide / Patrick Wolfe

"Crime without a name": colonialism and the case for "indigenocide" / Raymond Evans

Colonialism and genocides: notes for the analysis of the settler archive / Lorenzo Veracini

Biopower and modern genocide / Dan Stone

Empires, native peoples, and genocide / Mark Levene

Serial colonialism and genocide in nineteenth-century Cambodia / Ben Kiernan

Genocide in Tasmania: the history of an idea / Ann Curthoys

"The aborigines ... Were never annihilated, and still they are becoming extinct": settler imperialism and genocide in nineteenth-century America and Australia / Norbert Finzsch

Navigating the cultural encounter: Blackfoot religious resistance in Canada (c. 1870-1930) / Blanca Tovias

From conquest to genocide: colonial rule in German southwest Africa and German east Africa / Dominik J. Schaller

Internal colonization, inter-imperial conflict and the Armenian genocide / Donald Bloxham

Genocidal impulses and fantasies in imperial Russia / Robert Geraci

Colonialism and genocide in Nazi-occupied Poland and Ukraine / David Furber, Wendy Lower

Genocide from below: the great rebellion of 1780-82 in the southern Andes / David Cahill

The brief genocide of the Eurasians in Indonesia, 1945/46 / Robert Cribb

Savages, subjects, and sovereigns: conjunctions of modernity, genocide, and colonialism / Alexander Hinton

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-85745-693-8

1-78238-214-3

1-322-15254-3

OCLC:

892238853