Dark Vanishings : : Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930 /

Dark Vanishings : : Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930 / / Patrick Brantlinger.

Patrick Brantlinger here examines the commonly held nineteenth-century view that all "primitive" or "savage" races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction. Warlike propensities and presumed cannibalism were regarded as simultaneously noble and suicidal, acceler...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Brantlinger, Patrick,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: Aboriginal Matters
  • 2. Pre-Darwinian Theories on the Extinction of Primitive Races
  • 3. Vanishing Americans
  • 4. Humanitarian Causes: Antislavery and Saving Aboriginals
  • 5. The Irish Famine
  • 6. The Dusk of the Dreamtime
  • 7. Islands of Death and the Devil
  • 8. Darwin and After
  • 9. Conclusion: White Twilights
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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