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Genocide on settler frontiers : when hunter-gatherers and commercial stock farmers clash / / edited by Mohamed Adhikari



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Titolo: Genocide on settler frontiers : when hunter-gatherers and commercial stock farmers clash / / edited by Mohamed Adhikari Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (370 p.)
Disciplina: 967.57104
Soggetto topico: Indigenous peoples - Violence against - History
Indigenous peoples - Violence against - South Africa - History
Indigenous peoples - Violence against - Australia - History
Genocide - South Africa - Cape of Good Hope - History
Genocide - Australia - History
Persona (resp. second.): AdhikariMohamed
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Genocide on Settler Frontiers; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes in the Contributors; Chapter 1. 'We are Determined to Exterminate Them': The Genocidal Impetus Behind Commercial Stock Farmer Invasions of Hunter-Gatherer Territories; Chapter 2. '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 Centuries; Chapter 3. '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.1806-1830
Chapter 4. 'We Exterminated Them, and Dr. Philip Gave the Country': The Griqua People and the Elimination of San from South Africa's Transorangia RegionChapter 5. Vogelfrei and Besitzlos, with no Concept of Property: Divergent Settler Responses to Bushmen and Damara in German South West Africa; Chapter 6. Why Racial Paternalism and not Genocide? The Case of the Ghanzi Bushmen of Bechuanaland; Chapter 7. The Destruction of Hunter-Gatherer Societies on the Pastoralist Frontier: The Cape and Australia Compared
Chapter 8. '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) ComparedChapter 9. Indigenous Dispossession and Pastoral Employment in Western Australia during the Nineteenth Century: Implications for Understanding Colonial Forms of Genocide; Chapter 10. 'A Fierce and Irresistible Cavalry': Pastoralists, Homesteaders and Hunters on the American Plains Frontier; Chapter 11. Dispossession, Ecocide, Genocide: Cattle Ranching and Agriculture in the Destruction of Hunting Cultures on the Canadian Prairies
Chapter 12. Seeing Receding Hunter-Gatherers and Advancing Commercial Pastoralists: 'Nomadisation', Transfer, GenocideSelect Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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 whethe
Titolo autorizzato: Genocide on settler frontiers  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78238-739-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910797247503321
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Serie: War and genocide ; ; 22.