Empire, colony, genocide : conquest, occupation, and subaltern resistance in world history
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."
War and genocide, v. 12
Aufsatzsammlung
x, 491 pages ; 24 cm.
9781845454524, 1845454529
212908747
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
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