Ruling the Savage Periphery : Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State / Benjamin D. Hopkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hopkins, B. D., 1978- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borderlands--Political aspects.

Borderlands.

Imperialism.

Indigenous peoples--Government relations.

Indigenous peoples.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Benjamin Hopkins develops a new theory of colonial administration: frontier governmentality. This system placed indigenous peoples at the borders of imperial territory, where they could be both exploited and kept away. Today's "failed states" are a result. Condemned to the periphery of the global order, they function as colonial design intended.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: The Edges of Authority

1. Frontier Governmentality

2. Governing British India's Unruly Frontier

3. The Imperial Life of the Frontier Crimes Regulation

4. The Colonial Specter of "Savagery"

5. Ruling the Chiricahua Apache in America's Desert Southwest

6. Argentina's Conquest of the Desert and the Limits of Frontier Governmentality

Conclusion: A Long History of Violence

Notes

Archives Consulted

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780674246140

0674246144

9780674246164

0674246160

OCLC:

1148874774