Dimensions of Settler Colonialism in a Transnational Perspective: Experiences, Actors, Spaces

ISBN-13: 9780367587093 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 130 str.

Eva Bischoff

Opis

This book presents six case studies which examine the history of settler colonialism across the Anglo-World. Combining environmental history with microhistorical analysis, this volume provides a much-needed empirically saturated contribution to the growing field of settler colonial studies. This book was originally published as a special issue o

Spis treści

Introduction – Experiences, actors, spaces: dimensions of settler colonialism in transnational perspective  1. Good land–bad land: ecological knowledge and the settling of the old Northwest, 1755–1805  2. ‘The intrusion therefore of cattle is by itself sufficient to produce the extirpation of the native race’: social ecological systems and ecocide in conflicts between Hunter–Gatherers and commercial stock farmers in Australia  3. Invariably genocide? When hunter-gatherers and commercial stock farmers clash  4. Poor, white, and useful: settlers in their petitions to US Congress, 1817–1841  5. ‘I am frightened out of my life’: Black War, white fear  6. Arms & amelioration: negotiating Quaker peace testimony and settler violence in 1830s Van Diemen’s Land

O autorze

Eva Bischoff teaches International History at Trier University, Germany. Her research interests include colonial and imperial history, postcolonial theory, and gender/queer studies. She recently concluded a book project investigating the history of a group of Quaker families and their roles in the process of settler imperialism in early nineteenth-century Australia.