Ruling the Savage Periphery : : Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State / / Benjamin D. Hopkins.
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 or...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of 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