Empire, colony, genocide : conquest, occupation, and subaltern resistance in world history
A. Dirk Moses (Editor)
"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.""-- Provided by publisher
eBook, English, 2010
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Berghahn Books, New York, 2010
War and genocide, v. 12, volume 12
History
1 online resource (x, 491 pages).
9781782382140, 9781845457198, 1782382143, 1845457196
1049330143
Preface A. Dirk Moses SECTION I: INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AND CONCEPTUAL QUESTIONS Chapter 1. Empire, Colony, Genocide: Keywords and the Philosophy of History A. Dirk Moses Chapter 2. Anti-colonialism in Western Political Thought: The Colonial Origins of the Concept of Genocide Andrew Fitzmaurice Chapter 3. Are Settler-Colonies Inherently Genocidal? Re-reading Lemkin John Docker Chapter 4. Structure and Event: Settler Colonialism, Time, and the Question of Genocide Patrick Wolfe Chapter 5. "Crime without a Name": The Case for "Indigenocide" Raymond Evans Chapter 6. Colonialism and Genocides: Towards an Analysis of the Settler Archive of the European Imagination Lorenzo Veracini Chapter 7. Biopower and Modern Genocide Dan Stone SECTION II: EMPIRE, COLONIZATION AND GENOCIDE Chapter 8. Empires, Native Peoples, and Genocide Mark Levene Chapter 9. Colonialism, History, and Genocide in Cambodia, 1747–2005 Ben Kiernan Chapter 10. Genocide in Tasmania: The History of an Idea Ann Curthoys Chapter 11. "The aborigines... were never annihilated, and still they are becoming extinct": Settler Imperialism and Genocide in 19th-century America and Australia Norbert Finzsch Chapter 12. Navigating the Cultural Encounter: Blackfoot Religious Resistance in Canada (c. 1870-1930) Blanca Tovías Chapter 13. Genocide in German Southwest Africa and German East Africa Dominik J. Schaller Chapter 14. Inner Colonization and Inter-imperial Conflict: The Destruction of the Armenians and the End of the Ottoman Empire Donald Bloxham Chapter 15. Inner Colonialism and the Question of Genocide in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union Robert Geraci Chapter 16. Colonialism and Genocide in Nazi-occupied Poland and Ukraine David Furber and Wendy Lower SECTION III: SUBALTERN GENOCIDE Chapter 17. Genocide from Below: The Great Inca Rebellion of 1780–82 in the Southern Andes David Cahill Chapter 18. Political Loyalties and the Genocide of a Settler Community: The Eurasians in Indonesia, 1945-46 Robert Cribb Chapter 19. Savages, Subjects, and Sovereigns: Conjunctions of Modernity, Genocide, and Colonialism Alexander L. Hinton Notes on Contributors Select Bibliography Index
Originally published: 2008
Based on a conference called 'Genocide and Colonialism' held at the University of Sydney in July 2003. --Preface