Genocide on Settler Frontiers : : When Hunter-Gatherers and Commercial Stock Farmers Clash / / ed. by Mohamed Adhikari.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Adhikari, Mohamed,; Barta, Tony,; Cavanagh, Edward,; Curthoys, Ann,; Gordon, Robert,; Guenther, Mathias,; Harring, Sidney L.,; McDonald, Jared,; Penn, Nigel,; Ryan, Lyndall,; Veracini, Lorenzo,
• HerausgeberIn: Adhikari, Mohamed,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: War and Genocide ; 22
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (370 p.)

European colonial conquest included many instances of indigenous peoples being exterminated. Cases where invading commercial stock farmers clashed with hunter-gatherers were particularly destructive, often resulting in a degree of dispossession and slaughter that destroyed the ability of these societies to reproduce themselves. The experience of aboriginal peoples in the settler colonies of southern Africa, Australia, North America, and Latin America bears this out. The frequency with which encounters of this kind resulted in the annihilation of forager societies raises the question of whether these conflicts were inherently genocidal, an issue not yet addressed by scholars in a systematic way.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Chapter One ‘We are Determined to Exterminate Them’: The Genocidal Impetus Behind Commercial Stock Farmer Invasions of Hunter-Gatherer Territories -- Chapter Two ‘The Bushman is a Wild Animal to be Shot at Sight’: Annihilation of the Cape Colony’s Foraging Societies by Stock-Farming Settlers in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries1 -- Chapter Three ‘Like a Wild Beast, He Can be Got for the Catching’: Child Forced Labour and the ‘Taming’ of the San along the Cape’s North-Eastern Frontier, c.1806–18301 -- Chapter Four ‘We Exterminated Them, and Dr. Philip Gave the Country’: The Griqua People and the Elimination of San from South Africa’s Transorangia Region -- Chapter Five. Vogelfrei and Besitzlos, with no Concept of Property: Divergent Settler Responses to Bushmen and Damara in German South West Africa -- Chapter Six. Why Racial Paternalism and not Genocide? The Case of the Ghanzi Bushmen of Bechuanaland -- Chapter Seven. The Destruction of Hunter-Gatherer Societies on the Pastoralist Frontier: The Cape and Australia Compared -- Chapter Eight ‘No Right to the Land’: The Role of the Wool Industry in the Destruction of Aboriginal Societies in Tasmania (1817–1832) and Victoria (1835–1851) Compared -- Chapter Nine. Indigenous Dispossession and Pastoral Employment in Western Australia during the Nineteenth Century: Implications for Understanding Colonial Forms of Genocide -- Chapter Ten ‘A Fierce and Irresistible Cavalry’: Pastoralists, Homesteaders and Hunters on the American Plains Frontier -- Chapter Eleven. Dispossession, Ecocide, Genocide: Cattle Ranching and Agriculture in the Destruction of Hunting Cultures on the Canadian Prairies -- Chapter Twelve. Seeing Receding Hunter-Gatherers and Advancing Commercial Pastoralists: ‘Nomadisation’, Transfer, Genocide -- Select Bibliography -- Index