Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Mohamed Adhikari
Edited by Alfred J. Andrea
SeriesCritical Themes in World History
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 215,Width 139
ISBN/Barcode 9781647920494
Audience
General
Illustrations 20 grayscale and halftones

Publishing Details

Publisher Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Imprint Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Publication Date 18 July 2022
Publication Country United States

Description

'This book explores settler colonial genocides in a global perspective and over the long duree. It does so systematically and compellingly, as it investigates how settler colonial expansion at times created conditions for genocidal violence, and the ways in which genocide was at times perpetrated on settler colonial frontiers. This volume will prove invaluable to teachers and students of imperialism, colonialism, and human rights.' -Lorenzo Veracini, Swinburne University of Technology, and author of The World Turned Inside Out: Settler Colonialism as a Political Idea

Author Biography

Mohamed Adhikari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. Alfred J. Andrea is Emeritus Professor of History, The University of Vermont, and general editor of Hackett's Critical Themes in History series. His other books with Hackett include The Medieval Record: Sources of Medieval History, Second Revised Edition, and Seven Myths of the Crusades (co-authored with Andrew Holt and part of Hackett's Myths of History series).

Reviews

"A succinct, insightful, and highly readable text discussing an issue that deserves to be integral to any world history course. Using four finely crafted, yet widely dispersed, case studies Adhikari strikingly shows how vulnerability and resistance occur as the waves of global capitalism hit indigenous societies." Robert Gordon, University of Vermont "Illuminating and compelling. This is a volume about genocide, a recurrent phenomenon in world history that, disturbingly, has created our modernity. Mohamed Adhikari equips the reader with a sound conceptual introduction, then provides four detailed yet clear accounts of genocide in the Canary Islands, Queensland, California, and German Southwest Africa. He has expertly provided the big picture as well as the specifics true to each history. Primary sources from each episode invite the reader's participation in analysis. A book with which to think and to teach others." Lora Wildenthal, Rice University