Empire, Colony, Genocide : : Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History / / ed. by A. Dirk Moses.

• MitwirkendeR: Bloxham, Donald,; Cahill, David,; Cribb, Robert,; Curthoys, Ann,; Docker, John,; Evans, Raymond,; Finzsch, Norbert,; Fitzmaurice, Andrew,; Furber, David,; Geraci, Robert,; Hinton, Alex,; Kiernan, Ben,; Levene, Mark,; Lower, Wendy,; Moses, A. Dirk,; Schaller, Dominik J.,; Stone, Dan,; Tovías, Blanca,; Veracini, Lorenzo,; Wolfe, Patrick,
• HerausgeberIn: Moses, A. Dirk,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: War and Genocide ; 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (502 p.)

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.”

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Section I – INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AND CONCEPTUAL QUESTIONS -- – Chapter 1 – EMPIRE, COLONY, GENOCIDE Keywords and the Philosophy of History -- Chapter 2 – ANTICOLONIALISM IN WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT The Colonial Origins of the Concept of Genocide -- Chapter 3 – ARE SETTLER-COLONIES INHERENTLY GENOCIDAL? Re-reading Lemkin -- Chapter 4 – STRUCTURE AND EVENT Settler Colonialism, Time, and the Question of Genocide -- Chapter 5 – “CRIME WITHOUT A NAME” Colonialism and the Case for “Indigenocide” -- Chapter 6 – COLONIALISM AND GENOCIDES Notes for the Analysis of a Settler Archive -- Chapter 7 – BIOPOWER AND MODERN GENOCIDE -- Section II – EMPIRE, COLONIZATION, AND GENOCIDE -- Chapter 8 – EMPIRES, NATIVE PEOPLES, AND GENOCIDE -- Chapter 9 – SERIAL COLONIALISM AND GENOCIDE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY CAMBODIA -- Chapter 10 – GENOCIDE IN TASMANIA The History of an Idea -- Chapter 11 – “THE ABORIGINES . . . WERE NEVER ANNIHILATED, AND STILL THEY ARE BECOMING EXTINCT” Settler Imperialism and Genocide in Nineteenth-century America and Australia -- Chapter 12 – NAVIGATING THE CULTURAL ENCOUNTER Blackfoot Religious Resistance in Canada (c. 1870–1930) -- Chapter 13 – FROM CONQUEST TO GENOCIDE Colonial Rule in German Southwest Africa and German East Africa -- Chapter 14 – INTERNAL COLONIZATION, INTER-IMPERIAL CONFLICT AND THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE -- Chapter 15 – GENOCIDAL IMPULSES AND FANTASIES IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA -- Chapter 16 – COLONIALISM AND GENOCIDE IN NAZI-OCCUPIED POLAND AND UKRAINE -- Section III – SUBALTERN GENOCIDE -- Chapter 17 – GENOCIDE FROM BELOW The Great Rebellion of 1780–82 in the Southern Andes -- Chapter 18 – THE BRIEF GENOCIDE OF EURASIANS IN INDONESIA, 1945/46 -- Chapter 19 – SAVAGES, SUBJECTS, AND SOVEREIGNS Conjunctions of Modernity, Genocide, and Colonialism -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX