Empire, Colony Genocide Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History

Name: Empire, Colony Genocide Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History
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ISBN: 9781845457198

ISBN-10: 1845457196

ISBN-13: 9781845457198

Edition: 2009

Authors: A. Dirk Moses

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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…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 502
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.04" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Preface




Intellectual History and Conceptual Questions



Empire, Colony, Genocide: Keywords and the Philosophy of History




Anti-colonialism in Western Political Thought: The Colonial Origins of the Concept of Genocide




Are Settler-Colonies Inherently Genocidal? Re-reading Lemkin




Structure and Event: Settler Colonialism, Time, and the Question of Genocide




"Crime without a Name": The Case for "Indigenocide"




Colonialism and Genocides: Towards an Analysis of the Settler Archive of the European Imagination




Biopower and Modern Genocide




Empire, Colonization and Genocide



Empires, Native Peoples, and Genocide




Colonialism, History, and Genocide in Cambodia, 1747-2005




Genocide in Tasmania: The History of an Idea




"The aborigines... were never annihilated, and still they are becoming extinct": Settler Imperialism and Genocide in 19th-century America and Australia




Navigating the Cultural Encounter: Blackfoot Religious Resistance in Canada (c. 1870-1930)




Genocide in German Southwest Africa and German East Africa




Inner Colonization and Inter-imperial Conflict: The Destruction of the Armenians and the End of the Ottoman Empire




Inner Colonialism and the Question of Genocide in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union




Colonialism and Genocide in Nazi-occupied Poland and Ukraine




Subaltern Genocide



Genocide from Below: The Great Inca Rebellion of 1780-82 in the Southern Andes




Political Loyalties and the Genocide of a Settler Community: The Eurasians in Indonesia, 1945-46




Savages, Subjects, and Sovereigns: Conjunctions of Modernity, Genocide, and Colonialism



Notes on Contributors


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Index