Genocide on Settler Frontiers : : When Hunter-Gatherers and Commercial Stock Farmers Clash /

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

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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 socie...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (370 p.)
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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

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