Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian HistoryA. Dirk Moses " . . . often new, probing and rich examinations of the takeover of a continent by white Anglos and the long-term impact . . . the book is replete with detailed and meticulously sourced information on the scope, scale and persistence of the cruelty and violence involved - actual and structural - over a 200-year period. . .there is a great deal in this excellent volume that demands grounds for deep reflection on how Australia came to be what it is." - Patterns of Prejudice "The value of this stimulating collection of historical essays is that it points to both the usefulness of a transnational framework for analysing race thinking and the necessity for close attention to the historical specificity of particular moments and places." - Australian Book Review "[This volume] is an outstanding collection, a challenging conversation between differing viewpoints where discussion is ongoing and cooperative." - Australian Historical Studies Colonial Genocide has been seen increasingly as a stepping-stone to the European genocides of the twentieth century, yet it remains an under-researched phenomenon. This volume reconstructs instances of Australian genocide and for the first time places them in a global context. Beginning with the arrival of the British in 1788 and extending to the 1960s, the authors identify the moments of radicalization and the escalation of British violence and ethnic engineering aimed at the Indigenous populations, while carefully distinguishing between local massacres, cultural genocide, and genocide itself. These essays reflect a growing concern with the nature of settler society in Australia and in particular with the fate of the tens of thousands of children who were forcibly taken away from their Aboriginal families by state agencies. A. Dirk Moses teaches European History and comparative genocide Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is editing another volume in this series entitled Genocide and Colonialism. |
Contents
Genocide and Settler Society in Australian History | 3 |
Colonialism and the Holocaust Towards an Archeology of Genocide | 49 |
Genocide and Modernity in Colonial Australia 17881850 | 77 |
Pigmentia Racial Fears and White Australia | 103 |
Genocide in Tasmania | 127 |
Plenty Shoot Em The Destruction of Aborginal Societies along the Queensland Frontier | 150 |
Passed Away? The Fate of the Karawali | 174 |
Punitive Expeditions and Massacres Gippsland Colorado and the Question of Genocide | 194 |
Aboriginal Child Removal and the Question of Genocide 19001940 | 217 |
Until the Last Drop of Good Blood The Kidnapping of Racially Valuable Children and Nazi Racial Policy in Occupied Eastern Europe | 244 |
Clearing the Wheat Belt Erasing the Indigenous Presence in the Southwest of Western Australia | 267 |
Governance Not Genocide Aboriginal Assimilation in the Postwar Era | 290 |
Notes on the History of the Aboriginal Population of Australia | 312 |
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Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous ... A. Dirk Moses Limited preview - 2004 |
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References to this book
Post-colonial Studies: The Key Concepts Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin No preview available - 2007 |