Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America
In: Settler colonial studies, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 180-183
ISSN: 1838-0743
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In: Settler colonial studies, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 180-183
ISSN: 1838-0743
In: The Historiography of Genocide, S. 296-322
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 53, Heft 3, S. 468-469
ISSN: 0004-9522
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 116-137
ISSN: 1461-7331
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 116-137
ISSN: 0031-322X
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 48, Heft 1, S. 138-139
ISSN: 0004-9522
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 154-161
ISSN: 1467-8497
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 154
ISSN: 0004-9522
In: Genocide studies and prevention: an international journal ; official journal of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, IAGS, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 118-120
ISSN: 1911-9933
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 48, Heft 1, S. 138
ISSN: 0004-9522
In: Genocide studies and prevention: an international journal ; official journal of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, IAGS, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 103-119
ISSN: 1911-9933
In: War and Genocide 22
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
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). She claimed that theories of race, notions of racial and cultural superiority, and the right of 'superior races' to expand territorially were themes that connected the white settler colonies, the other imperial possessions, and the fascist ideologies of post-Great War Europe. These claims have rarely been taken up by historians. Only in recent years has the work of scholars such as Jürgen Zimmerer and A. Dirk Moses begun to show in some detail that Arendt was correct. This collection does not seek merely to expound Arendt's opinions on these subjects; rather, it seeks to use her insights as the jumping-off point for further investigations - including ones critical of Arendt - into the ways in which race, imperialism, slavery and genocide are linked, and the ways in which these terms have affected the United States, Europe, and the colonised world